Shonagon Summary Quotes

#1. ... a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.

Richard Russo

#2. You cannot fool an audience.

Marian Anderson

#3. Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#4. I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

Robert Walser

#5. The world is a staircase," hissed the accordion maker in the darkness. "Some go up and some come down. We must ascend.

Annie Proulx

#6. Such words only hurt when the person saying them means something to you.

Grace Draven

#7. I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

May Sarton

#8. If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

Charles J. Shields

#9. You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bruce Braley