Parnassian Literary Quotes

#1. Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

Michael Ondaatje

#2. Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#3. I'm not sure what they mean by "revenge is a dish best served cold." But I do know this - nobody's ever satisfied with a single helping.

- Heman Lindon, McPherson, Kansas ( a character in Heels Over Head )

Clay G. Small

#4. I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Michael J. Fox

#5. I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. You do not love God if you do not love your brother

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

Dar Williams

#8. I don't want to part in any ill-humor. But can't you understand? I've grown used to seeing you, to having you with me all the time, and your action seems unfriendly, even unkind. You don't even offer an excuse for it. Why, I was planning to be together.

Kate Chopin

#9. I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

John Bolton

#10. Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you

Bill Walsh

#11. He says under his breath, "I'm going to fuck you hard, Rose." He strokes my head and leans me to his chest. "So hard that you're not going to be able to walk in the morning."
Why does that sound so good?

Krista Ritchie

#12. I began to write and came to see that writing has the same laws as nature. The simplest way to say something is always the best. Is that simple enough?

Chloe Thurlow

#13. All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

J.M. Coetzee

#14. In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model,

Thorsten Heins