Robbe Quotes & Sayings

In our digital distraction we've lost a basic truth: fresh air, sunlight, and movement make us feel better. — Julie Holland

The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine. — Richard Rohr

Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn — Kelley Armstrong

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar. — George Herbert

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role. — Eleanor Robson Belmont

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that's formalism. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

Metafiction is untrue, as a lover. It cannot betray. It can only reveal. Itself is the only object. It's the act of a lonely solipsist's self-love, a night-light on the black fifth wall of being a subject, a face in a crowd. It's lovers not being lovers. Kissing their own spine. Fucking themselves. True, there are some gifted old contortionists out there. Ambrose and Robbe-Grillet and McElroy and Barthelme can fuck themselves awfully well. — David Foster Wallace

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

The world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

You don't have to go through your life being a dumbnuts. Relax a little. You don't have to be responsible for the whole world. The earth was in orbit when we got here, and it will be here when we leave. - Erin — Sierra Cartwright

Memory belongs to the imagination. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach

The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants ... Life has become impossible. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice. — Kristin Hannah

The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

Ahhh! Impossibear has a gas powered stick! — Breehn Burns

The happiest people are the one who have mastered life's hardest lesson. They've learned how to let go, — Romina Russell

As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life. — Wanda Coleman

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl? — Tommy Lasorda