Mirklace Quotes & Sayings

Historians are gossips who tease the dead — Voltaire

I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration. — Narciso Rodriguez

There is nothing down here,' said the pale thing indistinctly. 'Nothing but dust and damp and forgetting. — Neil Gaiman

We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to enter into the minds and hearts of our own people, all of them, to comprehend them (us) and then to make characters and plots in stories that in honesty and with honesty reveal them (ourselves) to us, in whatever situation we live through in our own times: this is the continuing job, and it's no harder now than it ever was, I suppose. Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he's living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most — Eudora Welty

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare. — John McCain

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho