Unbendable Quotes

#1. He knows very well what underlies the compulsive side of his nature; it is the wish to escape that which he can't comprehend, seeking safety in an unbendable estrangement.

Carol Shields

#2. I envy the tireless intimacy of women's friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.

Pat Conroy

#3. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

Miriam Toews

#4. This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

#5. We're waiting for something to change into something worth waiting for

Michael Tolcher

#6. Tonight marked the end of the only chapter in my life I'd ever known, and I didn't know how to live in the emptiness ahead.

Aimee Carter

#7. Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

Squarepusher

#8. I think it's fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Scott Lynch

#9. Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

Voltaire

#10. My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

Chris Bohjalian

#11. Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#12. At times Ren felt like he was reading fragments of his own dreams, reassembled into words that pulled at his heart, as if there were a string tied somewhere inside his chest that ran down into the book and attached itself to the characters, drawing him through the pages.

Hannah Tinti

#13. That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.

Thomas Bidegain

#14. The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

Charlie Jane Anders