Nakajima Typewriter Quotes & Sayings

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them. — Kerry Greenwood

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace. — Otto Penzler

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude. — Questlove

Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former — Ben Lerner

No, no- the sky will grow dark, cold rain will fall and all trace of the right way will be blotted out. You will be all alone. And still you will have to go on. There will be ghosts in the dark and voices in the air, disgusting prophecies coming true I wouldn't wonder and absent faces present on every side, as the man said. And still you will have to go on. The last bridge will fall behind you and the last lights will go out, followed by the sun, the moon and the stars; and still you will have to go on. You will come to regions more desolate and wretched than you ever dreamed could exist, places of sorrow created entirely by that mean superstition which you yourself have put about for so long. But still you will have to go on — Richard Adams

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet. — Julia Quinn

I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them. — Mike Birbiglia