Puddling Process Quotes & Sayings

She's the stuff that lava is made of, not rain. — Anna Camilleri

You can't be spontaneous within reason. — Brittany DeLaBarrera

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

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry. — Patrick Rothfuss

life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction's purpose, — Katie Kitamura

A town so small, you tripped over people you hated every day. — Gillian Flynn

Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes - 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea ... almost got shagged ... cuppa tea'? — Marti Noxon, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

It was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy. — Mary Karr