Yoknapatawpha Quotes & Sayings

I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen. — Ann Aguirre

There will always be insatiable egotists who need to dominate and control, and there cannot be anarchy if no one follows the rules. — T. Mountebank

So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once. — Tony Hoagland

Here's a secret intel bulletin for all y'all who've never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion - the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history. — Chuck Thompson

Traffickers will stop when men stop buying women — Corban Addison

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. — Lee Majors

Hell? Mr. Human Boy Person? Can you hear the Simi? Or are you dead? Hello? (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

An altered state of consciousness simply means any state of awareness that is different from our normal waking state. When we daydream or dream at night, we are in an altered state. We can also get into an altered state by using meditations, hypnosis and exercises like jogging or yoga. Using drugs or alcohol can also produce an altered state, but in a less healthy way. — Susan Gregg

She'd used Heather's shower, and Heather's shampoo. And now she smelled like frosting. — Rainbow Rowell