Zekes Coffee Quotes & Sayings

I don't know how long I kept at it ...
I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.
It didn't seem to be summer any more — Sylvia Plath

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. — Milan Kundera

Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery in even the most inspired, the most noble, the most distinguished writing. Read what the great ones have said about their jobs; how they never sit down to their work without a sigh of distress and never get up from it witout a sigh of relief. Do you imagine that your Muse is forever flamelike
breathing the inspired word, the wonderful situation, the superb solution into your attentive ear? ... Believe me, my poor boy, if you wait for inspiration in our set-up, you'll wait for ever. — Ngaio Marsh

The key that will open the gateway to unburden our anger can only be forged through understanding. — Robert Palasciano

What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it. — Bob Odenkirk

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush. — Frederick Buechner

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos. — Norman Mailer