Illegitimus Non Quotes & Sayings

I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man. — Horace Annesley Vachell

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. — Sherman Alexie

Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to take that effort seriously and to recognize that a book may have taken ten years of a writer's life, that the writer has put heart and soul into it. And it behooves us, as book-review-editors, to treat those books with the care and attention they deserve, and to give the writer that respect."
Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review editor, in a Poets & Writer's interview
(something for all reviewers to think about) — Madeline Sharples

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free. — David Bowie

There's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it? — Ayn Rand