Michael Mcdowell Quotes

#1. I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before."

Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. "Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin.

Michael McDowell

#2. I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages.

Michael McDowell

#3. A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Louis L'Amour

#4. Savage mothers eat their children!

Michael McDowell

#5. Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#6. There is creation in the eye.

William Wordsworth

#7. There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

Anne Bernays

#8. In the hour before a thunderstorm, the color of the forest deepens: the pine needles take on a dense vibrant greenness they possess at no other time, the slender trunks go black, and the leaden sky above sinks lower by the minute.

Michael McDowell

#9. Great snakes!" Penny says, snatching her hand away from me and jumping off the bed. "Fuck a nine-toed troll, Simon." She's shaking her hand, and there are tears in her eyes. "Stevie Nicks and Gracie Slick! Fuck!

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Michael Ondaatje

#11. They placed the board between them on the kitchen table, and Becca took the suddenly inspired precaution of sprinkling the planchette with holy water taken from a bottle in the pantry placed next to the vanilla extract.

Michael McDowell

#12. And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.

Michael McDowell

#13. There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.

Monica Lewinsky

#14. Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not sufficiently grateful, she could make something of that, too.

Michael McDowell

#15. Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.

Michael McDowell

#16. To have a family is real strange," said India thoughtfully. "All these people you wouldn't have anything to do with except that they're related to you.

Michael McDowell

#17. She's got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?" "Oh," said Luker blithely, "she and I don't have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two." "I

Michael McDowell

#18. I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.

Joe Armstrong

#19. Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

Michael Novak

#20. Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.

Michael McDowell

#21. It took me a long time to learn the difference between working on a healthy relationship and wasting my time on a long goodbye. Never again!

Steve Maraboli

#22. Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.

Michael P. Kube-McDowell

#23. Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.

Michael McDowell

#24. Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Anthony Kennedy

#25. She had got beyond despair.

Michael McDowell

#26. Alcoholism is a disease," she said. "Like athlete's foot. Or herpes. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too." "Well,

Michael McDowell

#27. I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.

Michael McDowell

#28. Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie."

"Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.

Michael McDowell