19th Century Authors Jeopardy Quotes & Sayings

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts? — Theodore Roethke

While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line." — Deepa Mehta

Then there are unreasonable men who complain that simply knowing a sensual female is in the building is too distracting for them to work productively. — Jean Sasson

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered. — Eartha Kitt

Levi was thin and weedy, and his hair
well, his hair
but everything about him made Cath feel loose and immoral. — Rainbow Rowell

Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured. — Lorrie Moore

Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

In innocence there is no strength against evil [ ... ] but there is strength in it for good. — Ursula K. Le Guin

How's everything going, Jonah? This question is enough to piss me off. I hate counselors ... I have Naomi. I don't need this crap. — Hannah Moskowitz

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. — Lev Grossman

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family — Andy Zaltzman