Whittall Quotes

#1. That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

Zoe Whittall

#2. Talking to God was damned good business.

Victor Villasenor

#3. The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.

Mihail Marin

#4. Perhaps you could call your cat Meow so it could say it's own name. Or how about Stupid Cat Get Out Of Here. That would really confuse it if you tried to call it over to you.

Jade Puget

#5. They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

Laura Nyro

#6. It felt like the times were good, like we were remembering a time before Rachel died, even though things were never this good then, because they were just normal, and ordinary is never the kind if good you remember.

Zoe Whittall

#7. Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for ... [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.

Zoe Whittall

#8. And that survey is the one we all go back to. When you find one of their original corners, it is like a handshake with the past.

Andro Linklater

#9. We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.

Martin Winterkorn

#10. I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother.
"My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing them from time to time.

Zoe Whittall

#11. As Norman bride and English queen she would walk a fine line between the interests of two rulers -- her brother and her lord. Both men would demand her fealty. One, at least, would exact a heavy price if she were to prove disloyal.

Patricia Bracewell

#12. The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

Marguerite Duras

#13. I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.

Zoe Whittall

#14. When someone is your husband or father, that's simply who they are. You don't stop to question much about them, unless you're given reason to, and they'd never been given reason to.

Zoe Whittall