Syverud Kent Quotes & Sayings

The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?"
"To be a writer, you need readers."
"I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit? — Barbara Kingsolver

His ability to appear to be listening lent him an air of gravity without the inconvenience of an opinion of his own. — James S.A. Corey

more smoothly than you have done this — Elizabeth Chater

Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death. — Hugo Black

As I was walking past Tony Pastor's I saw Pat, the lesbian bouncer, throw a drunken young sailor out into the street. The sailor said, "That place is full of fucking queers." He swung at the air and nearly fell on his face, then he staggered away, muttering to himself. — William S. Burroughs

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. — John Zorn

The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm? — Leonard Ravenhill

In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life. — Maurice Sceve

It was impossible for him to get bored. He just didn't have the imagination. — Terry Pratchett

If you're always a giver, give yourself a break. Take time for yourself; your well-being is at stake. If you're always a receiver, try a turn at giving. Experience for yourself one of the joys of living. — Elsie Hillman-Gordon

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. — John Major

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen. — Ma Huateng