Gancia Quotes & Sayings

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside. — Cynthia Ozick

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative. — James Gleick

'Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why he struggled to do away with misery. — Elizabeth Goudge

This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing forms a passageway between two shores. — Helene Cixous

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. — Frank Sinatra

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. — Princess Diana

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. — Philip Levine