Couser Quotes & Sayings

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way. — Charles Frazier

If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. — Sherri Chasin Calvo

Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm. And if I should kiss you in the dark, it's no big deal; it's only because you are my love. — Stephen King

From the cover blurb on the University of Wisconsin Press edition, writer unknown:

Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse. Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States.... — G. Thomas Couser

My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up some more, the mares. — Reinaldo Arenas

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted. — Elisha Cuthbert

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years. — Melody Carlson

He hesitated, looking at her. The old Ellie was gone. Replaced by a woman who was detached and cold.
He didn't know what to say, how to reach her. There was a wall around her, and he'd laid the foundation for her to build it. — Kathy Love

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose.
And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining. — Jenny Valentine

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear. — Emily Dickinson

At one point, [Donald] Trump even had to say, yes, whatever Ted [Cruz] said, I agree with. — Rush Limbaugh

Soul is the invisible part of a living being that is immortal and breath is the evidence that the soul exists. The soul is what goes to Heaven when we no longer need our body here. We may be dogs, but we breathe, we bleed, and we love just like anybody else. — Kate McGahan

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever. — Alison Lurie