Singletrack Trails Quotes & Sayings

A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be. — Michelle Paver

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it. — Aimee Mullins

The mother is the child's supreme parent. — Havelock Ellis

Weightlessness was wonderful, and I was surprised at how natural it felt. — Ron Garan

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing. — Billy Collins

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television. — David Bowie

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. — Anthony Powell