Prisimeniau Quotes & Sayings

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts. — Jonathan Lethem

My work is one long triumph over my limitations. — Charles Willeford

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private. — Gin Wigmore

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

Are you saying we shouldn't be prepared? And I'm asking you that right now, Daniel ... Why would you be against people being able not only to be prepared to have food and water for their friends, but to defend themselves from looters and some of these degradation of society that happen in these crises? — Matt Shea

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn. — Idries Shah

His five feet three rested angular on the folding chair, a body small, well-wrought and somehow precious, as if it were the forgotten creation of any goldsmith - even Cellini - shrouded now in dark serge and waiting to be put up for auction. — Thomas Pynchon

C. S. Lewis introduced the phrase "pain, the megaphone of God." "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains," he said; "it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."3 The word megaphone is apropos, because by its nature pain shouts. When I stub my toe or twist an ankle, pain loudly announces to my brain that something is wrong. Similarly, the existence of suffering on this earth is, I believe, a scream to all of us that something is wrong. It halts us in our tracks and forces us to consider other values. — Philip Yancey

Spiders ... the spiders ... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance! — J.K. Rowling

Far from being tortured, the prisoners [at Guantanamo] are being handled literally with kid gloves (or simulated kid-effect gloves). The U.S. military hands each jihadist his complimentary copy of the Koran as delicately as white-gloved butlers bringing His Lordship the Times of London. It's not just unbecoming to buy in to Muslim psychoses; in the end, it's self-defeating. And our self-defeat is their surest shot at victory...Even a loser can win when he's up against a defeatist. A big chunk of Western Civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, the jihadists figure: hey, why not us? — Mark Steyn

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature. — Robert M. Hensel

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating. — Helen Mirren

Holy. Shit," Lucian whispered when they were alone. "Love, you neglected to tell me that she was a fireball!" he busted out in silent laughter and Tara put her head on his chest, welcoming his tight embrace. "I fucking love her, oh my God." He took her face in his hands and looked at her, smiling. "Tara Mae. — Lucian Bane

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything. — George Clooney