Sozan Quotes & Sayings

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction. — Michael Ondaatje

He spewed fire at the rain, though that didn't seem to discourage the storm. — Rick Riordan

When my first draft of a novel is done, I put it away, warts and all, to mellow. Some period of time later - six months, a year, two years, it doesn't really matter - I can come back to it with a cooler (but still loving) eye, and begin the task of revising. And although each book of the Tower series was revised as a separate entity, I never really looked at the work as a whole until I'd finished Volume Seven, The Dark Tower. When — Stephen King

For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness. — Pema Chodron

Sometimes, when you are reading a book you are enjoying very much, you begin thinking so hard about the characters and the story that you might forget all about the author, even if he is in grave danger and would very much appreciate your help. The same thing can happen if you are looking at a photograph. You might think so hard about whatever is in the photograph that you forget all about the person behind the camera. — Lemony Snicket

You know there's an old african proverb that i made up. if you want to go quickly, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. we need to go far, quickly — Al Gore

If you want to learn something, just steal it. — Woody Guthrie

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific. — Gene Simmons

Early in the ministry of the apostle Paul, he called himself the least of the apostles. Later on he said he was the least of all Christians. Then he said he was the chief of sinners. The older he got, the more he saw of God, the lower he became in his own estimation. — Tommy Nelson

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics. — David Hilbert

A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it. — Sterling Marlin

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. — Dave Eggers

Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care. — Elizabeth Brundage

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget
the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature. — James Joyce

John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset. — Malcolm Allison