Schaubek Hingeless Pages Quotes & Sayings

The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things. — Don DeLillo

Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience. — Allan Lokos

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. — Vladimir Nabokov

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream. — Hugo Chavez

-"You are unbelievable."
-"I hear that a lot from my lady friends," he agreed with a wink.
-"And I'll bet you have plenty as a pole dancer. Like I said before, I need a tracker, not a Chippendale demon. So why don't you run off and hand-wash your gold lame G-string while I get on with the job. Don't worry. I won't tell Lucifer on you. He might try to stick me with someone worse, like your even more annoying twin brother."
-"No need to wash anything, little witch, I prefer to go commando. — Eve Langlais

I had no idea what time I'd left, how I'd gotten home, who'd been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me. — Heather King

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character. — Joe Abercrombie

Children were quite disturbing really. It was difficult to think about children for long. They were all fickle little nihilists and one was forever being forced to protect oneself from their murderousness. — Joy Williams

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. — William, Saroyan

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical - as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist. — T.H. White

Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral. I was always quick with the mouth. I would never learn. — Charles Bukowski

There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows. — Lucille Kallen

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, What happens if I do this? — Terry Pratchett