Versioning Quotes

#1. I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

Seamus Heaney

#2. Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

Mary Gaitskill

#3. There is absolutely no shame in living within your income, however small it may be, but there is shame if creditors are always coming to your door.

Christine De Pizan

#4. No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

Sophie Hannah

#5. I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

Anne Sexton

#6. Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

Andy Rooney

#7. Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.

Carrie Ann Inaba

#8. Does anyone ever get the best of you?" "Yes," she returned, "but only when I choose to give it to them.

Courtney Milan

#9. Now Darkstripe,' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty.

Erin Hunter

#10. Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

Harold Holzer

#11. Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

Thomas Hobbes