Lepinskas Quotes & Sayings

There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes - a kind of subconscious exercise in which I'm trawling for some kind of entryway into fiction. — Dan Chaon

Coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body. — Betsy Sholl

But one thing is certain, he is the master criminal of this age. He controls a marvellous organization. Most of the Peace propaganda during the war was originated and financed by him. — Agatha Christie

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal. — Frank Bidart

What was God doing with himself before the creation? — Samuel Beckett

People tend to invert the most natural order of life, which is to move before things happen, instead of expecting things to happen to move. — Robin Sacredfire

I'm just a girl, with a pen and a dream — Nikki Rowe

If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family. — Margaret Craven

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. — Ray Bradbury

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. — Hayley Mills

The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life. — Robin Hobb

In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people. — Sabine Baring-Gould