Wayne Koestenbaum Quotes

#1. The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#2. I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#3. The receptionist at Horne, Buckman and Pierce, a classic battle-ax who was comfortably past her prime, eyed Loren as if she'd recognized her from a sex offender poster. Full frown in place, the battle-ax told her to sit. Randal

Harlan Coben

#4. You can create a CGColor directly using Core Graphics methods if you prefer, but using UIColor saves you from having to manually release the color when you no longer need it. Listing

Nick Lockwood

#5. Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.

Brian Tracy

#6. All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

Julian Simon

#7. Farewell Aragorn. Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#9. Prose divides shame into stations.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#10. Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!

Wayne Koestenbaum

#11. It is over now, the ordeal of the Union. The great crimson gash in the nation's history.

LIFE Magazine

#12. I seek for myself the immunity of the diplomatic pouch.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#13. Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#14. We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

Leo Buscaglia