Picciotti Emerald Quotes & Sayings

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means. — Cheryl Strayed

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.' — Anthony Marra

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death. — Don Kardong

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction? — Robert Greene

Like Jean Genet, Robert was a terrible thief. Genet was caught and imprisoned for stealing rare volumes of Proust and rolls of silk from a shirt maker. Aesthetic thieves. I imagined his sense of horror and triumph as bits of Blake swirled into the sewers of New York City. — Patti Smith

The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt. — Rainbow Rowell