Campusy Quotes & Sayings

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing. — William Shakespeare

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it. — Kenneth Patchen

...I mistrust folk who are always bringing God or Christ into their conversations. If it is not an actual blasphemy it is at least a presumption. It smacks of self-conceit, doesn't it? — Winston Graham

For about a whole month, at least, whenever anybody said anything that sounded campusy or phony, or that smelled to high heaven of ego or something like that, I at least kept quiet about it. I went to the movies or I stayed in the library all hours or I started writing papers like made on Restoration Comedy and stuff like that - but at least I had the pleasure of not hearing my own voice for a while. — J.D. Salinger

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice. — Ralph Steadman

I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office. — Kirby Larson