Backpacker Magazine Quotes & Sayings

Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader. — Edna O'Brien

Warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow. — Constance Fenimore Woolson

I blinked, and clamped my jaw shut to keep from answering, fishing through a school of thoughts like a greedy shark, watching them all dart just out of reach before I could sink my teeth into one. — Michael W Sherer

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup. — Kris Allen

It's a long story that involves copious quantities of alcohol and Lolita. — Michelle Hodkin

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication. — E.B. White

In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time - we might prescribe apps. — Daniel Kraft

I need you to do something. It's dangerous."
"Yeah, because I am feeling really safe behind my tiny tree. — Shandy L. Kurth

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word. — Thomas Boston