Edson Quotes & Sayings

It is very difficult to stop feeling. — Russell Edson

Creating New Worlds Through Imagination — Tabitha Edson

I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper... — Jamie Edson

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out. — Margaret Edson

You cannot imagine how time ... can be ... so still. It hangs. It weighs. And yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly, and yet it is so scarce. — Margaret Edson

Joan Finch is tall and sickly thin. She is wearing a tight black dress that accentuates her bony legs, the crookedness of her body. She looks like a burnt matchstick. — Jerrod Edson

There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life. — Russell Edson

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power. — Merritt A. Edson

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel. — Margaret Edson

to take steps to avoid — J.T. Edson

The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever? — Merritt A. Edson

Listen to the winds for the answers that you seek. Follow the sun for the destination of your dreams. If you get lost and are left all alone, follow the light of the moon and he'll guide you home.. — Jamie Edson

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers. — David Adams Richards

So Mr Brain opened his mouth to let a moonbeam into his head. — Russell Edson

Classroom teaching withholds nothing. I say to my young students every year, "I know how to add two numbers, but I'm not going to tell you." And they laugh and shout, "No!" That's so absurd, so unthinkable. What do I have that I would not give to you?
Bringing nothing, producing nothing, expecting nothing, withholding nothing
what does that remind you of?
Is this a bizarre occurrence that will go into The Journal of Irreproducible Results?
Or is it something that happens every day, all the time, all over the world,
and is based not on gain and fame, but on love. — Margaret Edson

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese. — Pele

It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end. — Margaret Edson

It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time ... when I knew words would be my life's work — Margaret Edson

Marketing is like sex - if you have to pay for it, you're doing something wrong — John Edson

Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all the racist, sexist, tasteless and denigrating remarks made by coaches inaudible to the students about whom they bellowed them. — David James Duncan

... ... , but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there. — Margaret Edson

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying. — Russell Edson

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary. — Margaret Edson

Let us consider the farmer who makes his straw hat his
sweetheart; or the old woman who makes a floor lamp her son;
or the young woman who has set herself the task of scraping
her shadow off a wall....

Let us consider the old woman who wore smoked cows'
tongues for shoes and walked a meadow gathering cow chips
in her apron; or a mirror grown dark with age that was given
to a blind man who spent his nights looking into it, which
saddened his mother, that her son should be so lost in
vanity....

Let us consider the man who fried roses for his dinner,
whose kitchen smelled like a burning rose garden; or the man
who disguised himself as a moth and ate his overcoat, and for
dessert served himself a chilled fedora.... — Russell Edson

What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream"
that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts? — Douglas R. Hofstadter

Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we might be happy. I am sure happiness is not too far away — Russell Edson

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others. — Russell Edson

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important. — Pele

She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart. — Russell Edson

There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal. — Merritt A. Edson

As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old. — Russell Edson

Goodbye, Ellie Edson. It's been fun." "Fun Ellie is dead. All that's left is broke-and-alone Ellie," I teased. Tyler stopped. "She's not dead. Just transitioning. Like a butterfly." "That's deep, Maddox." "I've been deeper," he said with a smirk, — Jamie McGuire

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face. — Pele

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. — Lydia Davis

I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly
hit him on the head, saying, I hit my son on the head,
therefore I am.
No no, you've got it all wrong, cried the man.
So she hit him on the head again and cried, therefore I am.
You're not, not that way; you're supposed to think, not hit,
cried the man.

. . . I think, therefore I am, said the man.
I hit, therefore we both are, the hitter and the one who gets
hit, said the man's mother.
But at this point the man had ceased to be; unconscious he
could not think. But his mother could. So she thought, I am,
and so is my unconscious son, even if he doesn't know it . . . — Russell Edson