Beletristica Carti Quotes & Sayings

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ... is to press play. — Jay Asher

Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if — Margaret Atwood

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling. — Vincent D'Onofrio

The more you reason the less you create. — Raymond Chandler

[My] explanation makes such immediate sense that I can give it up only reluctantly, a necessary concession to my physician's expertise. This is the way my students feel, I realize, when I suggest stylistic revisions. They like the sentence the way they wrote it. They defer to my greater knowledge and experience because they must, but they still like the way the original sentence sounded when it had a dangling modifier, and they secretly suspect that my judgment, while generally sound, may be flawed in this instance. And they're a little miffed at my insistence ... — Richard Russo

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union
a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin