Mannerisms Examples Quotes & Sayings

And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's reserved for the great-that is for "great men"; and it's "silly."
Besides, you've written a little, but in secret. And it wasn't good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn't go all the way, or because you wrote, irresistibly, as when we would masturbate in secret, not to go further, but to attenuate the tension a bit, just enough to take the edge off. And then as soon as we come, we go and make ourselves feel guilty-so as to be forgiven; or to forget, to bury it until the next time. — Helene Cixous

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. — Eileen Wilks

Following the rules for the past seventeen years has gotten me absolutely nowhere. I really need to do something about that. — Jessica Love

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians ... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed. — George III

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past — Christopher Paolini

Don't ever run away from your problems. Chase after them like a crazy person till they're too afraid to come near you again. — Zanib Mian

Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have. — Warren Ellis

Emily,' she said, 'I am going to ask you to Mallowe on the 2nd. I want you to help me to take care of people and keep them from boring me and each other, though I don't mind their boring each other half so much as I mind their boring me. I want to be able to go off and take my nap at any hour I choose. I will *not* entertain people. What you can do is to lead them off to gather things or look at church towers. I hope you'll come. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world. — Clive Barker

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back. — Lynda Barry

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside. I — Jojo Moyes