Quotes About Afterword

#1. The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind.
However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity.
Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

Brian W. Aldiss

#2. Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

Tom Brokaw

#3. You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.

Jeff VanderMeer

#5. When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who'd lost children wrote to me. 'I lost one, too,' they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn't lost any children. I'm just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)

John Irving

#6. [of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: 'I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.

Olivia Laing

#7. When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
as told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett

Samuel Beckett

#8. People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.
[Afterword]

Michael Chabon

#9. The old Galactic Prime sat silent, mouth compressed, eyes burning like far volcanoes. At his feet the new Prime, Lord of Two Billion Suns, found a dead leaf, put it into his mouth, and began to chew. Afterword

Jack Vance

#10. Indifference is the curse of this age. Indifference is evil, and it couldn't be farther from the heart of God.
Afterword - On Digging a Well p. 359

Charles Martin

#11. I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it.

Arlene Dickinson

#12. We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.

Anonymous

#13. On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some
raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris,
especially when one doesn't believe in God.

Michel Houellebecq

#14. When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees.

Bindi Irwin

#15. Filigree - charming if one but overlooked the fact that it

David Liss

#16. But to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

Christopher Moore

#17. Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#18. When you believe in yourself as a great asset God created for a reason, you will rename your major successes as mere stepping stones because there are greater things that eyes have not yet seen through you, and all are embedded in the value you have in your room; remember that value is you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Giacomo Casanova

#20. All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'

Raymond T. Odierno

#21. Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

Sathya Sai Baba

#22. I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

J.K. Rowling

#23. The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here and now. A fatuous, suicidal wish that is constipated by words and paralyzed by thought.

Henry Miller

#24. For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Orson Scott Card

#25. My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

Danzy Senna

#26. And although God is always close, if you don't pray, you will never manage to feel His presence.

Paulo Coelho