Suffusing Quotes

#1. I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.

George Saunders

#2. REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Steven Pressfield

#4. You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

Winslow Homer

#5. A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

George Saunders

#6. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.

John Green

#7. Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.

William Kristol

#8. It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

James Thurber

#9. The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

Joe Harris

#10. How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Jodi Picoult

#11. Oh God, yes, you little fucking whore. Take it all.

C.D. Reiss

#12. I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.

Dalai Lama