Striebeck Markus Quotes

#1. Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

Susan Hill

#2. Childhood does not exist to serve the national economy. In a healthy nation, it should be the other way around.

Jonathan Kozol

#3. I would rather have lost my memory again with her than to have her be alone in this.

Colleen Hoover

#4. The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

Charles R. Brown

#5. I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!

Karen A. Wyle

#6. I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

Albert Camus

#7. As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

Wes Craven

#8. On a personal level, we all get along fine.

Alex Van Halen

#9. For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

Sandra Cisneros

#10. Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

James Ellroy

#11. names are a way to keep people in your mind

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

Martin Kippenberger

#13. Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world.

K.J. Kilton

#14. Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Paul Bryant

#15. It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

Olivia Wilde