Curval Quotes & Sayings

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house. — Victoria Lynn Schmidt

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. — Audre Lorde

There are,' said Curval, 'but two or three crimes to perform in this world, and they, once done, there's no more to be said; all the rest is inferior, you cease any longer to feel. Ah, how many times, by God, have I not longed to be able to assail the sun, snatch it out of the universe, make a general darkness, or use that star to burn the world! oh, that would be a crime, oh yes, and not a little misdemeanor such as are all the ones we perform who are limited in a whole year's time to metamorphosing a dozen creatures into lumps of clay. — Marquis De Sade

It wasn't enough to catch a glimpse of these lands and ideas through the small window of the pages she turned. She wanted to step through and feel the yellow waters of the Yangtze herself, to hear the celestial music of foreign pipes, to taste the foods described by adventurers who traveled purposefully into the areas on maps labeled 'Here be tygres. — Liz Braswell

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. — Yann Martel

European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army. — David Ignatius

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. — Will Eisner

He was not imitating me; he had become me, in a sense; it was like suddenly acquiring a younger twin. — Oliver Sacks

Cling to the good. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. — John Stossel