Ferretts Quotes & Sayings

What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. ... It is only with poetry, for some reason, that everyone wants to believe they can try their hand at it once in a while and be considered, can call themselves a poet. ... . It's a craft. It's an art. It's a skill. It is not therapy, and it is not compensation for terrible things in one's life. It is a thing in itself. You devote yourself to being an instrument of it, or you wander forever in the belief that it is a form of "self-expression." ... And I explained very clearly my opinion of what I think a poet, an artist is. Someone who puts this thing first. — Franz Wright

I'm coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!
-Skye yelling back to Hagan. — J.L. McCoy

As a woman lives them, she will understand more and more of these interior feminine rhythms, among them the rhythms of creativity, or birthing psychic babies and perhaps also human ones, the rhythms of solitude, of play, of rest, of sexuality, and of the hunt. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help. — Sara Sheridan

The only confession Jolene had ever wrenched from him was that he had cared about her. — Erin McCarthy

I've never slapped anyone before,' she admitted.
'How did you find the experience?'
'It would have been more satisfying if he'd gone flying out of his seat like I imagined. — Alexandra Bracken

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips

When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press. — Gaby Sanchez

All night, my face next
to your mouth, I hold my breath,
listening to yours. — Imtiaz Dharker

We're grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days? — Max Lucado

Bear hunting? Come on up and we'll fix you up, you betcha. Just be sure you bring some hunting buddies with you, preferably fat ones who can't run as fast as you. — Sarah Palin

As a matter of fact, that's the reason why I've learned to speak this language, and to write it too: so I can speak in the place of a dead man, so I can finish his sentences for him. The murderer got famous, and his story's too well written for me to get any ideas about imitating him. He wrote in his own language. Therefore I'm going to do what was done in this country after Independence: I'm going to take the stones from the old houses the colonists left behind, remove them one by one, and build my own house, my own language. The murderer's words and expressions are my unclaimed goods. Besides, the country's littered with words that don't belong to anyone anymore. — Kamel Daoud

There is no greater gift than time. — Jonathan Safran Foer