Esbenshades Garden Quotes & Sayings

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow. — Flannery O'Connor

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway,

Mookie came out. They're hot to go, Jamie. I'll roll some sound, if you want. I sure can't fuck it up, because these guys make the Dead Milkmen sound like the Beatles. — Stephen King

This game is something Australians really look forward to. — Matthew Hayden

I'd always believed that the cello was a solitary instrument, but now I was starting to wonder if maybe I was the solitary one. — Anonymous

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom ... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country. — Duke Ellington

I believe in people. — Javier Bardem

It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system. — Mortimer J. Adler

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing. — Anna Godbersen