Poague Quotes

#1. I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.

Uwem Akpan

#2. A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

Jerry Spinelli

#3. The belle is a product of the Deep South, which is a product of the nineteenth century and the Age of Romanticism. Virginia is a product of the eighteenth century. It's impossible to extract a belle from the Age of Reason.

Florence King

#4. I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.

Michele Poague

#6. I am dangerously close to falling in love with you," he tilted his head in thought before adding, "if not already there.

Belle Aurora

#7. Against the alchemy of two naked bodies in a bed in the darkness, and against all the complex longings and attachments and commitments such intimacy might arouse, he had nothing with which to fight.

Robert Harris

#8. Do you want to fuck off, or do you need a written invitation?

Santino Hassell

#9. I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Lyle Lovett