Apthorp House Quotes & Sayings

If I behave like a good boy and take my Prozac ... then I won't be able to write anymore.
I'll have Writer's block from not being able to communicate with the characters in my mind. — Timothy Pina

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality. — Elizabeth Bowen

What's my favorite part that I've written? That's like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly! — Matthew Catania

Henry's a perfectionist, I mean, really-really kind of inhuman - very brilliant, very erratic and enigmatic. He's a stiff, cold person, Machiavellian, ascetic and he's made himself what he is by sheer strength of will. His aspiration is to be this Platonic creature of pure rationality and that's why he's attracted to the Classics, and particularly to the Greeks - all those high, cold ideas of beauty and perfection. — Donna Tartt

If not today, when? — Rosemary Ellsworth Brown

The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions ... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art ... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. — Timothy Radcliffe

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen ... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments. — John Berger

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. — Horace