Wallace Who Wrote Quotes

#1. People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

Wallace Stevens

#2. A voice is in the wind I do not know
A meaning on the face of the high hills
Whose utterance I cannot comprehend.
A something is behind them: that is God.

George MacDonald

#3. The next year had seen them drop into the crazy-obsessive love spiral in which they'd break up and then not be able to stay away from each other, until one time she was able to stay away, and that was all she wrote.

David Foster Wallace

#4. A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Max Frisch

#5. Is woman a human being?' And, of course, triumphantly proves that she is.

Anton Chekhov

#6. Her stare was serious, curious as she studied him. I'm not sure she likes you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

Mads Mikkelsen

#8. That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.

Wallace Stegner

#9. Wallace Stegner once wrote that the lessons of life amount to scar tissue.

Michael McGarrity

#10. Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini.

Michael Riedel

#11. Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

Wayne Dyer

#12. As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#13. You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next.

Wallace Stegner

#14. How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

Susan Sarandon

#15. People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're alive.

Francesca Lia Block

#16. You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.

Daniel Tosh