Sensei Wa Erai Quotes & Sayings

As I see it, dating is a product of our entertainment-driven, disposable-everything American culture ... Love and romance became things people could solely enjoy for their recreational value. — Joshua Harris

Miss Murphy in first grade
wrote its name in chalk
across the board and told us
it was roaring down the storm tracks
of the milky way at frightful speed
and if it wandered off its course
and smashed into the earth
there'd be no school tomorrow. — Stanley Kunitz

Mirren took off her shoes and the rest of us followed. We tossed stones into the water. We just existed. — E. Lockhart

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record. — Janis Ian

Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing, and I guess I used to think about it that way too a long long time ago. But as I've lived my life and loved and lost friends and family, and seen dreams smashed and resurrected, and marveled at the pettiness, drear ambition and ignorance of the herd of which I am a part, I can no longer say that a poem or a story or a script comes from nothing. If it's any good, if it has any power, any potent emotional body, then it's something that a writer has paid for, not only in time, but in all the anxiety that accompanies living and those small fret-filled acts of becoming present that make it possible for us to see beyond our little patch of immediacy. It's not just a reaching out, but a reaching in, into the depths of our being from whence we've sprung. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time. — Daniel Handler

he nearly burst out laughing at the uppity annoyed princess look she had on her face. He — Kristen Ashley