Yacullo Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story. — Thomas Lennon

Success by one's efforts is the achievement gained through ability, not through deception. — Waheed Ibne Musa

Murder is a plant of slow growth ... — Mignon G. Eberhart

Life is a ritual of love
Life is a ritual of union, and
Life is a dance of the divine — Vishwas Chavan

When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too. — Richard Yates

He is plotting to become a Power. He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment. And — J.R.R. Tolkien

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances. — Maggie Grace

I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. — D.H. Lawrence

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state. — Elfriede Jelinek

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words. — Allison Mackie

The people who can do you the most damage are the ones who are closest to you. — Robert Mitchum

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better. — Timothy F. Cahill

I wrote about the Thai sex industry and people ask me how many bar-girls I slept with. I've just completed a short story about a High School shooting but nobody thinks I shot anyone. — Matt Carrell

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt