Minasian Raffi Quotes & Sayings

Some of us, alas, are destined to find our escapes in novels, not life. — Michael Dirda

We don't need much imagination to imagine that to be free of hatred, of enmity, of the endless and hopeless effort to oppose violence with violence, would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of indifference would be to have life more abundantly. To be free of the insane rationalizations for our desire to kill one another-that surely would be to have life more abundantly. — Wendell Berry

A tale where the knight kills the princess and rescues the demon lord. — Kim Yong-Hwan

You said I should change my life and find a reason to want to live. I chose you. — Laurann Dohner

Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you — Paul David Tripp

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know. — James Russell Lowell

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end. — Susan Glaspell

Never worry about the reader, what the reader can understand. When you are writing, glance over your shoulder, and you'll find there is no reader. Just you and the page. Feel lonely? Good! Assuming you can write clear English (or Norwegian) sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
To write a poem you have to have a streak of arrogance ( ... ) when you are writing you must assume that the next thing you put down belongs not for reasons of logic, good sense, or narrative development, but because you put it there. You, the same person who said that, also said this. The adhesive force is your way of writing, not sensible connection. — Richard Hugo

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. — Susan Sontag

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie. — Michael Madsen