Atomes De Carbone Quotes & Sayings

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story. — Patrick Ness

It is for truth that God created genius. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one. — Tess Gerritsen

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story. — Guillermo Del Toro

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world. — Chellis Glendinning

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. — Maxine Kumin

He likes this part of the night: stage set, players yet to walk on. He likes stirring up the stale but ever-expectant air - sorry and glad in equal measure that hopes for transcendence are rarely met. There will be an exchange of bread and wine for money and then people will go back to their workaday lives. — Myfanwy Jones