Tivesse Quotes & Sayings

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. — Mos Def

But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother. — Marie Helvin

I didn't bring my peremptory tone to bear in regard to what you'd just said about the unnecessariness of sleep but only, only, mind you, because of the fact that I absolutely, simply, purely and without any whatevers have to sleep now, I mean, man, my eyes are closing, they're redhot, sore, tired, beat ... — Jack Kerouac

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings. — Paolo Bacigalupi

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up. — James MacArthur

You're right, super-realism is back in style. — Robert Genn

I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent. — Stephen Graham Jones

Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher. — Octave Mirbeau

He hated to be alone, but people bored him. Being alone was like being tired, but unable to sleep. — John Le Carre