Russell Edson Quotes

#1. The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.

Lydia Davis

#2. That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.

Sophie Hannah

#3. If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Russell Edson

#4. I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Og Mandino

#5. There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life.

Russell Edson

#6. In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

Richard Rodriguez

#7. Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Robert H. Schuller

#8. Well, I haven't convinced anyone to take a bite out of an apple lately, so I think we're all pretty safe for the time being.

J.M. Darhower

#9. She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart.

Russell Edson

#10. Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

Anna Howard Shaw

#11. Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.

Robin Leach

#12. People think it's how hard you kick that hurts,' Mr Vandemar's voice was saying. 'But it's not how hard you kick. It's where.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Dictionary he identifies 'what ills the scholar's life assail': 'Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail'. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate - the

Henry Hitchings

#14. So Mr Brain opened his mouth to let a moonbeam into his head.

Russell Edson

#15. Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we might be happy. I am sure happiness is not too far away

Russell Edson

#16. I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

Peter Zumthor

#17. The "Art Nouveau" appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. "I'm alive." "I'm decorative.

Susan Sontag

#18. He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. It is very difficult to stop feeling.

Russell Edson

#20. The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Russell Edson

#21. It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

Meryl Streep

#22. You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

Steve Martin

#23. As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.

Russell Edson