Ashkin Slaughters Quotes & Sayings

Writing is the only thing that makes me feel alive. — Mary Sage Nguyen

Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality. — Rabih Alameddine

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller

So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money. — Richard Branson

I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized. — Ammon Shea

Now that I'm thinking about it," I told Gerald, "they could make an incredibly long limousine that had it's back seat at your mom's VJ and it's front seat at your mausoleum, and it would be as long as your life. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education. — Chris Cagle

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. — Paul Gauguin

Losing all hope was freedom. — Chuck Palahniuk

No matter what path Carter would take us, I'd go with him. — Tijan

Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves. — Will Schwalbe