Michiko Kakutani Quotes

#1. Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

Robert Galbraith

#2. What kind of person doesn't know whether her father was a king or a monster?

J.C. Carleson

#3. It does not make any difference what a man say; what matters is how he feels, and not how he feels on one particular day but how he feels at all times.

Seneca.

#4. As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

Hilary Mantel

#5. Live each and everyday to the fullest! ;-)

Pam Langsam

#6. Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today ...

John Lennon

#7. I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

#8. See the beauty in all things big and small. Love life like today is your last. Keep knocking until the door is opened unto you. Never lose your sense of child and wonder.

Brenda Rae Schoolcraft

#9. To search for the old is to understand the new.

Gichin Funakoshi

#10. Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.

Thomas Pynchon

#11. Oh, my friend, what have you gone through that being called moral nearly makes you weep? Or was it being called friend?

Brent Weeks

#12. Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer

Walter De Mulder

#13. So," he said to Sefton, "you knew that ghosts were real ... and you led us to the 'most haunted building in London.' What's up with that?

Paul Cornell

#14. The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

Michiko Kakutani

#15. As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Gerald Brenan

#16. Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

Laura Wasser