Kevin Focke Quotes & Sayings

Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading. — Kevin Focke

Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity. — Kevin Focke

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler. — Kevin Focke

If idiots can't think for themselves, then what is a movement of idiots?

A herd following the flock. — Kevin Focke

We treat what's lost, what could have never been, what we could have never dreamed of, again. We treat it like heirlooms for it is so precious. For we know it can be lost, again. — Kevin Focke

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would. — Kevin Focke

Love yourself' the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing narcissist. — Kevin Focke

Political correctness is modern day censorship. This still doesn't justify you in being a douchebag. — Kevin Focke

Bad business does not revolve around missing crossroads. It revolves around roundabouts. — Kevin Focke

Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy. — Kevin Focke

Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still. — Kevin Focke

Growth is a revolt against natural degradation. — Kevin Focke

An artist without an audience is like a jar without jelly. There doesn't always need to be much jelly in the jar, nevertheless a jar without jelly would feel jealous and empty. — Kevin Focke

I don't experience writer's block, I only have periods of severe writer's diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from "the shit" later on. — Kevin Focke

Great fiction is real — Kevin Focke

Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all. — Kevin Focke

You won't know how much you'll miss someone until they're gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance. — Kevin Focke

It's a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they're dead. — Kevin Focke

In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own. — Kevin Focke

It was hard to accept, but when the heart-shed of a faded sparkle was tallied, a dim fullness came over me. Maybe some things are just meant to be cherished the way they are: Unfinished, left unturned, wondering what could be and could have been. — Kevin Focke

Where did it go, the moderate opine? I can't find it here nor there!
'Perhaps then it's twixt the false dichotomy? — Kevin Focke

Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles. — Kevin Focke

Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world. — Kevin Focke

Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life. — Kevin Focke

Climate change is like my head: it's not visible in every instance, but I'm pretty darn sure it's there. — Kevin Focke

I think the suicide rate is so high among writers because we force ourselves to stand still, take an outsider's perspective, and realise how quickly a life passes by, and how futile we are. The exhilarating upside is that at a moment's glance all your worries fade away, and you can work on making the most of it. — Kevin Focke

I'm on a drug called life. — Kevin Focke

Why can't prose be poetic? — Kevin Focke

-The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.
-The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth.
Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it. — Kevin Focke

Writing is all about tents: sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent. — Kevin Focke

What would writing be without a bit of melancholy? — Kevin Focke

It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it. — Kevin Focke

Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growled. And deep under the roots of trees in little holes lived rabbits, cuddling next to their young. All the while Mr. Ant and his colony were dragging a once boisterous Nocturnal Cicada to the nest; a feast for days! I suppose my daydreaming occasionally did extend into the night. I've spent countless hours I'll never regain, but for the off-chance I was right just once, it was worth every second. — Kevin Focke

Sheep wish no taste but woolly sweet conformity. — Kevin Focke

Bloated software causes IT stress farts. — Kevin Focke

When you aim for the stars even if you fail you'll be a falling star, and that's wish-fulfilling material. — Kevin Focke

Everything about her exuded a certain calmness, an unfathomable tranquillity. Her body, her smile, and her mesmerizing eyes all came together to form a lively painting of timeless allure. — Kevin Focke

Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat. — Kevin Focke

A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist. — Kevin Focke

Time makes the ordinary extraordinary and the extraordinary ordinary. — Kevin Focke

Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh! — Kevin Focke

Life summed up with a marketing slogan: Limited Edition! — Kevin Focke