Chiedozie Ibekwe Quotes & Sayings

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years. — Richard Ford

Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature
match writers off against each other and see who won over the long haul. Faulkner or Henry Green? I reckon the surprise champ was P.G. Wodehouse, as elegant and resourceful a prose stylist as anyone held up for our inspection here ... he has turned out to be as enduring as anyone apart from Orwell. Jokes, you see. People do like jokes.
(Hornby's thoughts after reading "Enemies of Promise" by Cyril Connolly) — Nick Hornby

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. — Theodore C. Sorensen

My life has certainly had its share of remarkable patterns, symmetries and asymmetries, coincidences that have left me wondering on the ground just what my life looks like from a distance - seen from the air, does it reveal a scheme? I have heard myself mulling over this question many times while growing up. But now that I'm well into middle age and have reached the age my mother was when one son's illness ensnared a second one, I look down from the air and am astonished at the landscape. — Yarrott Benz

Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world ... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object. — Robert Olen Butler

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically — Tim Crane

There is nothing costs less than civility. — Miguel De Cervantes

I want to kiss you again, Tess."
"Why?"
He chuckled, low under his breath. "Why? Because you're beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too. — Lara Adrian

And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing. — Aldous Huxley

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee

If only she had brought her novel down with her. — Anthony Doerr

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but ... — Diana Ross

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is. — Deepak Chopra