Lombardo Marsala Quotes & Sayings

In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from the bloodsuckers. It's about making them scary again. — Stephen King

Translation is the art of failure. — Umberto Eco

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. — Calvin Coolidge

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. — Carlos Fuentes

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. — Elizabeth McCracken

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. — J.M. Coetzee

Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Bottle inwardly sang of all this, as do young poets, who frequently also know nothing about the things of which they sing. From The Bottle Neck — Hans Christian Andersen

Before we can influence our culture, our visions must die. — Mark Sayers

Believe it or not, but even when I'm sleeping, I'm dreaming about meeting fans — Liam James

Will slams poems; I slam doors. — Colleen Hoover