Keatext Quotes & Sayings

Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researcher's mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not available anywhere else, let it be in the novel. - from Twayne's US Authors Series: JOHN A WILLIAMS by Gilbert Muller — John A. Williams

The rich girls steal, the pretty girls lie, the smart girls play dumb and the dumb girls spend their days trying to be all of the above. — Caleb

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst. — Dick Cheney

I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome ... you get to fly. — Josh Keaton

The inability to set aside something that you know but that someone else does not know is such a pervasive affliction of the human mind that psychologists keep discovering related versions of it and giving it new names. — Steven Pinker

If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me. — Santosh Kalwar

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness, — Katherine Anne Porter

Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness. — Rachel Caine

I did not fall in love with you,
I was born on the floor.
Everything else was just remembering. — Caitlyn Siehl

The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but your rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush. — Jay McInerney

My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the reason I think I wrote it was because it was too damn quiet when I was young, and I wanted people to come out and talk. And they do. There's so much dialogue in 'The End of Vandalism.' — Tom Drury

Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age. — A.S. Peterson

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man. — Buffalo Bill