Quotes About Canlit

#1. Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

Linwood Barclay

#2. Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?

Elizabeth Goudge

#3. It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

Northrop Frye

#4. I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.

Jessica Stroup

#5. I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

Percy Sledge

#6. Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

John Osborne

#7. Weak people die fast.

Deyth Banger

#8. Start by loving, instead of needing.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#9. Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

Franklyn Ajaye

#10. Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.

Margaret Atwood

#11. But maybe when you never say a thing, your thoughts spread like mould.

Tamara Faith Berger

#12. Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.

Rose Christo

#13. If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

Blake Griffin

#14. love and logic are the poorest of bedfellows.

Robert J. Crane

#15. It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.

Herman Cain

#16. Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Gustav Mahler

#17. You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.

Robert Holden

#18. The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

Matt Damon