Raabe Verlag Quotes & Sayings

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy. — Wendell Berry

Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning — Kobayashi Issa

I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people's spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call "soft" thinking. — John O'Donohue

If I had been a quiet, polite and measured woman,
I would not have got to the top. — Theresa Gattung

Nick inherited me. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I quote Frank O'Connor to my students: that when you are writing a story, at some point the story must take over. You are not going to be able to control it. I think this is true. O'Connor said he thought Joyce controls his stories too tightly - "Whoever heard of a Joyce story taking over?" he asked - and that there is a deadness about them. You have got to keep the story opened up, let the story take over at some point. — Peter Taylor

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others. — Daniel Pennac