Tunnelling Conference Quotes & Sayings

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure. — Anais Nin

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar.
"Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. — Karen Marie Moning

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, Can I have your apple? — Rick Riordan

I consider my childhood a gift," Maurice once told me. "It happened to me so I could learn the right way to raise my children. — Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski

Can you see me? See the man that I am? Accept me, Regin, because I'm holding onto nothing but you. — Kresley Cole

So, I say to you, young writers: You only need one person to believe in you, even if that person is yourself. And I say to you, old writers, and there's a hell of a lot of you in here, — Claire Contreras

What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind. — Wei Wu Wei