Anakana Quotes & Sayings

You give me hope. Hope that even though life is really, really hard - even if it fucking sucks sometimes - that it's worth living — Jessica Sorensen

I have a weird graphic I made for myself once, and it's the "lineage tree" of everyone that has inspired me and more importantly given me the permission to be myself in my work. There's a slew of people from theater: Erwin Piscator, Chekhov, Mac Wellman, Stein; and then a whole lot of wonderful works that are called novels: everything from Tristram Shandy to Bouvard and Pecuchet, to Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas, and Finnegan's Wake and Invisible Man, and then contemporary writers I'm currently reading like Renee Gladman and Anakana Schofield. There are many more in my graphic also: there's Beckett's novels and Melancholy of Resistance, and there's Reznikoff and Dos Passos, there are contemporary poets I admire like Jena Osman, dance-writers like Michelle Ellsworth, and books I can't help read for fun like Muriel Spark. But there's Groucho Marx and Oscar Wilde. It's a huge question and the answers would likely change daily. But these I'm talking about here are in the pantheon. — Thalia Field

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

And i've just kept dancing. I don't know if i've overcome these things, but the music never stopped, so neither did I. — Calista Lynne

I'm not at all overextended ... I'm very, very hands-on. — Mark Burnett

A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind. — David Hume

Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him. — J.D. Greear

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. — Colum McCann