Holdstock Quotes & Sayings

You're good with people, and all I know how to do is give good neck. — Kim Harrison

Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit.
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I'm sorry. I'll stop. I'll forget everything about you. I won't chase you anymore! — Kaori Ozaki

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force. — Rand Paul

Bone always outlasts feather — Robert Holdstock

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America. — Colin Powell

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It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises. — Josephine Humphreys

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock

Do you realize that a middle-class couple, one archaeologist, one dolls' expert, can't move from their house because ancient spirits are blocking them in? It's a reasonable sort of day's experience, isn't it? — Robert Holdstock

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre. — David Gemmell

however many thousands the charity raised, it could not solve the problem: people. — Nick Holdstock

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? — Johann Georg Hamann

Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism — Robert Holdstock

All love is blind to reason, and maybe that's why some people are so strong. — Robert Holdstock

Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust. — Pauline Holdstock

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers no less virtuous, made a grimace of disgust as they picked it up with the tongs to throw it into the fire. Even the minor literary reviews, the ones that retail nightly the tittle-tattle from alcoves and private rooms, held their noses and talked of filth and stench. I am not complaining about this reception; on the contrary I am delighted to observe that my colleagues have such maidenly susceptibilities. — Emile Zola

Anywhere. But he's out of his fucking mind if he thinks he's getting my Smurf. — J.A. Huss

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone. — Fritz Sauckel

Surely we can only come to understand each other's beliefs by means of direct encounter and open, honest discussion. In the meantime, many free churches invite all believers in Jesus Christ to the Table for the sake of true spiritual unity that transcends intellectual differences of interpretation. Withholding sacramental sharing on the basis of disagreement about the nature of the Lord's Supper seems odd to us. What two people think exactly alike about the act? We are not offended by Catholics' closed Communion, but we find it odd and exclusive. It places intellectual understanding above fellowship among disciples of Jesus Christ. — Roger E. Olson

I really didn't mean to steal it." Mr. Williams shook his head. He scratched at his chin nervously. "Why not? That's what they're there for. Tunes belong to everybody. So do stories. — Robert Holdstock

Nothing has happened until it happens — Robert Holdstock

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past,
given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest. — Robert Holdstock

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person. — Theodore Zeldin

you were both hunter and hunted; the shadow of your thoughts was the beast which killed you. — Robert Holdstock

All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten. — Robert Holdstock

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we're watching, and dealing with. — William Trevor

Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree. — Robert Holdstock