Atticus Institute Quotes & Sayings

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.
- Mitch Lucker — Mitch Lucker

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way) — Pseudonymous Bosch

We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a soap opera, for others an epic, but, for all of us, it's an ongoing narrative that we constantly manipulate and reshape, improving (like the best anecdotes) in the retelling. This is not just true of writers. The story is one of the key ways we define and order our experiences as human beings: how we tell ourselves and others who we are.
(from the Daily Telegraph) — Neil McCormick

I'll show them ... it'll really wipe the smiles off their faces if we win."
"Just as long as we're not wiping you off the field," said Hermione. — J.K. Rowling

You must be human ... how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse. — Stephen King

It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?! — Paul Jewell

The foundation of data gathering is built on asking questions. Never limit the number of hows, whats, wheres, whens, whys and whos, as you are conducting an investigation. A good researcher knows that there will always be more questions than answers. — Karl Pippart III

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous. — John Steinbeck

Male eighteen whats your point?" - Shane — Rachel Cane

You have to treat yourself every once in a while, get to the fun stuff! — Heidi Klum

Life is the greatest sacred existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects have done so, suffering, killing themselves, dressing, perfuming themselves, writing as if they were Werther (songs, poems, candy boxes, belt buckles, fans, colognes a' la Werther). A long chain of equivalences links all the lovers in the world. In the theory of literature, "projection" (of the reader into the character) no longer has any currency: yet it is the appropriate tonality of imaginative readings: reading a love story, it is scarcely adequate to say I project myself; I cling to the image of the lover, shut up with his image in the very enclosure of the book (everyone knows that such stories are read in a state of secession, of retirement, of voluptuous absence: in the toilet). — Roland Barthes

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes. — Peter Berg

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words - are we discovering Truth, or just wanking? — Neal Stephenson

Quoting oneself is the writer's selfie. — Andrew Craven