Viriconium Quotes & Sayings

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don't know. Likewise, I don't know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I'm reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world. — M. John Harrison

Absolute Truth would be incompatible with life as absolute light would be with vision — Nanamoli Thera

Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. — Jay Baer

A glimpse, a little piece of their story, flapping like ribbon in the wind. — Karen Foxlee

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person. — Dawn French

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969] — Vladimir Nabokov

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?' — Alison Moyet

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. — George Clinton

His hand squeezes my waist and he eyes me hard. "Fallon." He says my name like it's an entire lecture in itself. — Colleen Hoover

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. — Olive Schreiner

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die. — Jodi Picoult

Curiosity killed the cat," Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? "People always forget the rest of the saying," she complained. "'And satisfaction brought it back. — Tamora Pierce