Peter Sotos Quotes

#1. Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Peter Sotos

#2. Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

Peter Sotos

#3. You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.

Dianna Agron

#4. My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

Keariene Muizz

#5. Pornography won't be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.

Peter Sotos

#6. The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

Peter Sotos

#7. There's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound.

Margaret Atwood

#8. I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

Peter Sotos

#9. Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

Peter Sotos

#10. Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully

Kate Spade

#11. If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

Cory Doctorow

#12. Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

Octavio Paz

#13. And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

Peter Sotos

#14. To find why this sheep's wool was red; and the prize was awarded to a learned man of the North, who demonstrated by A plus B minus C divided by Z, that the sheep must be red, and die of the rot.

Voltaire

#15. But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

Peter Sotos

#16. Growling in my ear he said, "Hold on to me. It's going to be a rough ride.

Michelle Dare

#17. I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

Peter Sotos

#18. In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Peter Sotos

#19. We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

Will.i.am

#20. I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

Johannes Kepler

#21. If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

Peter Sotos

#22. Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

Peter Sotos

#23. Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Peter Sotos

#24. That's not a religion, that's Pokemon.

Stephen Colbert

#25. My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

Peter Sotos

#26. We advise others better than ourselves.

Norm MacDonald

#27. Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.
("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#28. I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

Peter Sotos

#29. Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

Robert Holden