Bahles Department Quotes & Sayings

I can't speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that's the deepest motivation, and it is so because I'm full of self-loathing and shame. Writing doesn't make me a better person, nor a wiser and happier one, but the writing, the text, the novel, is a creation of something outside of the self, an object, kind of neutralized by the objectivity of literature and form; the temper, the voice, the style; all in it is carefully constructed and controlled. This is writing for me: a cold hand on a warm forehead. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken. — Ashley Olsen

Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air. — Lucretius

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality. — Mary Ellen Mark

When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your dreams, and then start to actually walk it. Play an active role in your own future. Imagine with passion and detail how you'd most like it to be. — Ralph Marston

Open your heart to the true wonders that really exist in life. — Steven Redhead

I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25. — Julianne Moore

I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible. — Sonny Sharrock

It unscrews the other way. — J.K. Rowling

I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once. — Lisa Schroeder