Touchier Whip Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident. — T.C. Boyle

He wanted to be better than what he was made of. In Mumbai's dirty water, he wanted to be ice ... He wanted to be recognized as better than the dirty water in which he lived. He wanted a verdict of ice. — Katherine Boo

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger. — John Lothrop Motley

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find. — John Banville

Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The nights are filled with explosion and motor transport, and wind that brings them up over the downs a last smack of the sea. Day begins with a hot cup and a cigarette over a little table with a weak leg that Roger has repaired, provisionally, with brown twine. There's never much talk but touches and looks, smiles together, curses for parting. It is marginal, hungry, chilly - most times they're too paranoid to risk a fire - but it's something they want to keep, so much that to keep it they will take on more than propaganda has ever asked them for. They are in love. Fuck the war. — Thomas Pynchon

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. — Virginia Woolf