Enormities Def Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend. — Ned Vizzini

Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page. — Anne Bernays

I want my books to be the illicit secret pleasure each reader is anxiously anticipating to open and savor. — Melinda De Ross

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard. — Red Skelton

I am defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. — Ashwin Sanghi

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there. — Kevin Brockmeier

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, Warren, my darling. — Patricia Briggs

Body is a home, a prison and a grave. — James Runcie

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. — James Merrick

I've always wanted to play more comic parts. — Dominic West

It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel. — Samuel Rutherford