Risdon Quotes

#1. Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.

Garry Disher

#2. Let's run away."
"To where?"
"Alaska."
"What's in Alaska?"
"No clue," I whispered. "Find out with me.

Cecily White

#3. These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#4. They discuss the characters as though they were living people, and ask frequently, 'What happened to so-and-so?' ... as if I got letters from them every now and again.

Stephen King

#5. I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

Ilana Glazer

#6. It has sick on the sleeve. And no apostrophe.

Belinda Bauer

#7. Everything on Earth - for good or for bad - originated first from thought.

David Pandolfe

#8. Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#9. cry wild.
you have probably never
cried wild.
but, you know what doors
feel like.
you have
an intimacy with doors
that is killing you

-break

Nayyirah Waheed

#10. Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

Khalil Gibran

#11. My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

Dree Hemingway

#12. Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

Josh Klinghoffer

#13. I never want to grow up.

Tyler, The Creator

#14. Yes, she probably thought he was a few displays short of an exhibition, seeing as he had yet to utter a single word.

Liz Bower