Demeterov Kart Rka Quotes & Sayings

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.' — Andrei Codrescu

I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep. — Iman

It's not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it's something that's got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team. — Jon Gordon

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it. — Horace Kephart

Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose. — A.J. Flowers

In flight from intellectual heaviness, [he] arrives at intelligent weightlessness. Every notion is flipped this way and that; the answer to every question is yes and no; the proliferating examples from all the arts ... overwhelm the observations that they are designed to illustrate; the general impression in one of uncontrollable articulateness. [He] does not think his thoughts; he convenes them. There is not a sign of struggle anywhere. — Leon Wieseltier

Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile ... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way. — Albert Pujols

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident. — Timothy Keller

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom. — Jessica Mitford

country, wearing dark glasses, after the armistice - receiving — Edmond Taylor

Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. "Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark. — Erin Morgenstern

She had just enough madness to make her interesting — Atticus Poetry

What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great worries out of such threadbare things. — Sunjeev Sahota

He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage.
Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden.
-Wrath's thoughts — J.R. Ward