Sinaitic Quotes

#1. The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

Louis MacNeice

#2. This was the final weight that broke my mind's kneecaps.

Isaac Marion

#3. Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Annabelle Selldorf

#4. If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Billy Wilder

#5. What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Erykah Badu

#6. I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

H.L. Mencken

#8. A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann