Maintz Cathedral Quotes & Sayings

Q: Where and when do you do your writing?
A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have no particular schedules ... afternoons are best, but I'm too lethargic for any real regime. When I'm in the flow of something I can do a regular 9 to 5; when I don't know where I'm going with an idea, I'm lucky if I do two hours of productive work. There is nothing more off-putting to a would-be novelist to hear about how so-and-so wakes up at four in the a.m, walks the dog, drinks three liters of black coffee and then writes 3,000 words a day, or that some other asshole only works half an hour every two weeks, does fifty press-ups and stands on his head before and after the "creative moment." I remember reading that kind of stuff in profiles like this and becoming convinced everything I was doing was wrong. What's the American phrase? If it ain't broke ... — Zadie Smith

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all. — Lorde

Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction. — Jack Hyles

The election of Hoover ... should result in continued prosperity for 1929. — Roger Babson

Chances are that he's experiencing a great deal of guilt and self-loathing. Someone needs to help him come to terms with that. Otherwise, there is the danger that he will simply shut down that part of himself. He will start actively considering himself to be a remorseless killer. And he will become one. — Lisa Gardner

When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself. — Chuck Palahniuk

wanted to make him know that he had friends in this world tied to him by something stronger than blood, ties that could never fade or dissolve. That he would never be hungry or cold or motherless while I still drew breath. That he didn't need two hands, or a street address, or clean lungs, or social grace, or a happy disposition to be precious and irreplaceable. That no matter what our future held, my first task would always be to kick a hole in the world and make a space for him where he could safely be his eccentric self. Most — Hope Jahren

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me. — Jose Antonio Vargas

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float ... are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. — Mark Kurlansky

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy. — Dizzy Gillespie

She comes not when noon is on the roses -
Too bright is day.
She comes not to the soul till it reposes
From work and play.

But when night is on the hills, and the great voices
Roll in from sea,
By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight
She comes to me. — Herbert Trench

I try to kill him in my heart before I kill him in the flesh. — Pierce Brown

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. — Ransom Riggs