Stormbattered Quotes

#1. The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.

Keri Hulme

#2. It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, Yo, what the fuck?

Melissa Broder

#3. Log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Daniel Shanks

#4. The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

Julio Cortazar

#5. The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Aleister Crowley

#6. I don't mind playing absolute bastards ... I just don't want to play the grouch.

Hume Cronyn

#7. As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Joan Aiken

#8. They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

Huey Long