Piling Machine Quotes & Sayings

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to. — Michael Brandt

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. — Will Carleton

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there. — Ryan Tedder

Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for? — James Joyce

But my mother is a fish. Vernon seen it. He was there.
"Jewel's mother is a horse," Darl said.
"Then mine can be a fish, can't it, Darl? I said.
Jewel is my brother.
"Then mine will have to be a horse, too," I said.
"Why? Darl said. "If pa is your pa, why does your ma have to be a horse just because Jewel's is?"
"Why does it? I said. "Why does it, Darl?"
Darl is my brother.
"Then what is your ma, Darl?" I said.
"I haven't got ere one," Darl said. "Because If I had one, it is was. And if it is was, it can't be is. Can't it?"
"No," I said.
"Then I am not," Darl said. "Am I?"
"No," I said.
I am. Darl is my brother.
"But you are, Darl," I said.
"I know it," Darl said. "That's why I am not is. Are is too many for one woman to foal. — William Faulkner

For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse. — Y.S. Lee

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. — Chris Bohjalian

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder

So when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic. — Andrew Davidson

I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain. — Gary Morris

The flowers which played then among the grass, the water which rippled past in the sunshine, the whole landscape which served as environment to their apparition lingers around the memory of them still with its unconscious or unheeding air; ... — Marcel Proust

The thing is you're looking for something two-dimensional and not quite real. It never lasts. But you can't expect something unreal to last anyway, can you? — Haruki Murakami

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art. — Aleksandar Hemon