Codestart Quotes & Sayings

...I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddling up to its mother or if it was like a chigger depositing its larvae underneath the skin of my ankles. — Jason Porter

The earth's a door, if you press your ear against it. — David Mitchell

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away — Nicholas Sparks

I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended. — Patience Strong

Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl. — Chris Milk

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. — Haruki Murakami

I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served. — Kathleen Hanna

Foggy hangover ... fending off sloth and torpor ... the battle within!!!!! — Mukesh Kwatra

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado

Yes, fine," I say, feeling dead inside. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea who isn't really here. — Libba Bray

So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. "This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends." He stared at the paintings for a long time and then shook his head in discouragement. "In my mind, they were a whole lot better."
Isn't that the truth? Every morning, I go to my desk and reread yesterday's pages, only to be discouraged that the prose isn't as good as it seemed during the excitement of composition. In my mind, it was a whole lot better.
Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page closer to what you have in your mind. — David Morrell

I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes. — Adam Rapp