Nordlynx Quotes & Sayings

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning. — Hal Hellman

I can't speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that's the deepest motivation, and it is so because I'm full of self-loathing and shame. Writing doesn't make me a better person, nor a wiser and happier one, but the writing, the text, the novel, is a creation of something outside of the self, an object, kind of neutralized by the objectivity of literature and form; the temper, the voice, the style; all in it is carefully constructed and controlled. This is writing for me: a cold hand on a warm forehead. — Karl Ove Knausgard

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. — Curtis Jackson

It took me an hour to know you, and only a day to fall in love, but it will take me a lifetime to forget you. — Stevie J. Cole

The country taken as a whole is only fit for the Indian and they had ought ... to possess it, they and their children, forever. — Paul N. Beck

I can smell the crazy on that man from here. I have a nose for it. — Rachel Caine

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role. — Laura Prepon

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage. — Keith Carter