Utilized Syn Quotes & Sayings

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about. — L.P. Hartley

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours. — Rachel Kushner

In life, nothing happens by accident. Set a goal, believe in it and go all-in to achieve it. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf? — Larry Niven

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory. — Dick Dale

I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I'm surfing every day. — Marisa Miller

Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was going to do about it now. — Kimberly Gardner

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
but romance is having what is where it is which is not
where you are stay where it is. — Gertrude Stein

I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain. — Anne Michaels

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.' — Patrick Chappatte

'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers. — Patrick DeWitt