Micky Flanagan Peeping Quotes & Sayings

When you are turning pages
if you are in the midst of a really good writer
of the very rare kind

his or her voice becomes crystal clear

and all of your own so very still.
They sit down, fold their arms across
your lap and shhhhstillness from within

and from this
in this rare moment

you will be able to observe and then
if you wish
rewrite
your own story.

Yes, this is what the really rare and good writer does
and how reading can heal your life story. — Cathrine Lodoen

My Precious, my Precious. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Don't ask about the consequences if you want to do something. Otherwise you'll never do it. — Erich Maria Remarque

How do you know that, Philo, dear?"
But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are."
By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm. — Megan Whalen Turner

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding. — Ric Keller

I love the life I live, I live the life I love. — Buddy Guy

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake. — Paul Von Hindenburg

As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music ... I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers. — Boudleaux Bryant

When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters. — Jerome Stern

It was going to be embarrassing regardless of what music they
chose, but Honoria didn't have the heart to say it to her face.
On the other hand, whichever piece they performed, they would
surely butcher it past recognition. Could a difficult piece played
badly be that much worse than a slightly less difficult piece played
badly? — Julia Quinn

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after? — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. — Yo-Yo Ma