Comeouthenry Quotes & Sayings

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast." — Ishmael Reed

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts. — Sanford Meisner

The artwork of children always broke Grace's heart. The pieces were like snapshots, a moment that is forever gone, a life-post, never to be repeated. Their artistic abilities will mature and change. The innocence will be gone, captured only in fingerpaint or coloring out of the lines, in uneven handwriting. — Harlan Coben

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood. — Robert Morgan

All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come. — Laurie Paige

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description. — Deb Caletti

When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you. — David Rakoff

They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in. — Mark Twain

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done — Simone Weil

I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence. — Charlotte Eriksson