Paris 1919 Book Quotes & Sayings

Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket? — T.C. Boyle

The bartender put a notepad and a pencil before me. Breathing hard, the pencil trembling, I wrote:
Dear Sinclair Lewis:
You were once a god, but now you are a swine. I once reverenced you, admired you, and now you are nothing. I came to shake your hand in adoration, you, Lewis, a giant among American writers, and you rejected it. I swear I shall never read another line of yours again. You are an ill-mannered boor. You have betrayed me. I shall tell H. L. Muller about you, and how you have shamed me. I shall tell the world.
Arturo Bandini
P.S. I hope you choke on your steak. — John Fante

You're going to get a lot of advice coming from many different quarters to do things that don't feel right to you, that don't reflect who you are and what your values are. So you have to be grounded in who you are and what you believe. — Hillary Clinton

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside. — Pankaj Mishra

Please dont' look at me like that," she said.
"How am I looking?"
"Like your heart is breaking."
"It is, sunshine. — Cherrie Lynn

I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person. — Harris Wittels

It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out. — Taissa Farmiga

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second. — Frederick Lenz

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life. — Emily M. Danforth

Daemonic compulsiveness can kill as easily as it can save.
The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent. Van
Gogh never sold a painting in his life. Poe came close with
poetry and fiction, selling very little. Drivenness only helps if
it forces the writer not to suicide but to the making of splendid
works of art, allowing him indifference to whether or not the
novel sells, whether or not it's appreciated. Drivenness is trouble
for both the novelist and his friends; but no novelist, I
think, can succeed without it. Along with the peasant in the
novelist, there must be a man with a whip. — John Gardner

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own. — David Brooks

Lonny Zone stepped forward, tall and cadaverous, moving with the slow undersea grace of his addiction. — William Gibson

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick. — Huey Lewis

Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead. — Ken Ham