Picaresque Literature Quotes & Sayings

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions. — Frederick Sommer

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. — Robert M. Sapolsky

I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son. — Didi Conn

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish. — Bernie Mac

This song is sweet. It is sweet. The heart dies of this sweetness. — Brigit Pegeen Kelly

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. — Willard Scott

The late John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Since women, for many years, were denied the journey, they were left with only one plot in their lives --
to await the stranger. Indeed, there is essentially no picaresque tradition among women novelists. While the latter part of the twentieth century has seen a change of tendency, women's literature from Austen to Woolf is by and large a literature about waiting, usually for love. — Mary Morris

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner. — Charlie Chaplin

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important. — Matt Dillon