Passiglias 1855 Quotes

#1. It was a strange experience to be looking out the window of an eighteenth-century Chinese house at a seventeenth-century colonial graveyard full of people in twenty-first-century Halloween costumes. Salem, guys.

J.W. Ocker

#2. How kind is weariness sometimes! It is like the Father's hand laid a little heavy on the heart to make it still.

George MacDonald

#3. Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

Teresa Amabile

#4. The Necrotelecomnicon," said the dwarf. "Wizards use it. It's how to contact the dead, I think.

Terry Pratchett

#5. When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.

John Edgar Wideman

#6. God will not make himself manifest to cowards

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Louise Brooks

#8. The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

Georges Simenon

#9. I'm ALIVE!!!!!!!

Darren Shan

#10. My Zombie Ate Your Honor Student

Gena Showalter

#11. The sole source of wisdom is suffering.

Terry Ray