Serrada Estrela Quotes

#1. The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.

Terryl L. Givens

#2. In another large journal book, he wrote his notes out again, along with further notes on the notes, and then started to cross words out of the completed, annotated notes, carefully removing word after word until he had something that looked like a poem. This was how he imagined poetry to be made.

Iain M. Banks

#3. It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Franz Kafka

#4. The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

Walter E. Williams

#5. By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

Ben Fountain

#6. When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.

Lauren Willig

#7. The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.

Simon Van Booy

#8. Way too many fat people in shorts.

C.J. Box

#9. I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Geena Davis