Backpages Quotes & Sayings

When you're having a depressive surge painful memories can start to emerge. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft. — Christopher Moore

Truth is overrated. — Rob Davis

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations? — Lynne Cox

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas. — Kevin McCarthy

Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence in our oversimplified conclusions, we overreact. — Ted Cadsby

Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

The world doesn't really care too much about what you do sometimes - as long as you let certain types carry on en masse without you. — Matthew Quick

Precautions to be taken in the case
Of freak reincarnation: what to do
On suddenly discovering that you
Are now a young and vulnerable toad
Plump in the middle of a busy road,
Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine,
Or a book mite in a revived divine. — Vladimir Nabokov

Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn. — Roger McGuinn