Seashells From Fahrenheit 451 Quotes & Sayings

As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something. — Christopher Moore

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation. — Sidney Lanier

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate. — Bernadette McDonald

The question with no answer. This is what you wished us to consider. But there was an answer. And you knew it. "What is our remedy against the robber, who so broke into our house?" We burn down the house-- with the robber inside. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. — Jim Morrison

Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor. — Rod Liddle

As Nietzsche says about Christians, you can tell from their faces that they don't enjoy doing what they do. Fiction writers cluster in the unlit corners of the room, silently observing everybody, including the poets, who are usually having a fine time in the center spotlight, making a spectacle of themselves as they eat the popcorn and drink the beer and gossip about other poets. — Charles Baxter

through the hull - the rush of water past a prow, the thrum of propellers. — Erik Larson

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. — Alfred Edward Housman

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine. — Gloria Allred

Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning. — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free. — Gary Snyder

Justice is not a flexible tool. Unless we all do our part to ensure that justice is applied equally to all human beings, we are a party to its abuse. We must stand together to protect the rights of others. — Leonard Peltier