Robert Kroetsch Quotes

#1. On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.

Patrick Modiano

#2. I'm no longer interested in the possible.

Robert Kroetsch

#3. I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

George Saunders

#4. All comedians have to use their physicality, so I use my size.

Rebel Wilson

#5. If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.

Robert Kroetsch

#6. Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Joseph Addison

#7. Without writing, I sometimes suspect there would be no such thing as love.

Robert Kroetsch

#8. We can only re-tell stories; we attempt, in doing so, to tell new stories. Is there a way out of this bind? I think the trick is to enter into it completely. Avoid purity. The idea of perfection sounds awfully boring.

Robert Kroetsch

#9. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Alexander Pope

#10. I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.

Cate Blanchett

#11. He may have been a trifle wild.

Jacob A. Riis

#12. We must not confuse the disease to please with the command to love.

Lysa TerKeurst

#13. George Bowering doesn't play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.

Robert Kroetsch

#14. It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.

Dominic Frisby

#15. I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish.

Charles Bukowski

#16. To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

Robert Kroetsch

#17. I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

Rex Stout

#18. Guys. It's three things with you. My dick is bigger than yours, I make more money than you and I can beat the fuck outta you."

Add in I can outdrink you, outdrive you and whip your ass at cards and that's the brain of a man.

Lorelei James

#19. Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump speaks the erotics of being alive and being in love with being alive.

Robert Kroetsch

#20. Everyone wants to be a designer.

Christian Cota