Zoltans Quotes & Sayings

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison. — Sushil Koirala

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in. — Carl Sandburg

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Writing is learned by imitation. I learned to write mainly by reading writers who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and by trying to figure out how they did it. S. J. Perelman told me that when he was starting out he could have been arrested for imitating Ring Lardner. Woody Allen could have been arrested for imitating S. J. Perelman. And who hasn't tried to imitate Woody Allen? Students often feel guilty about modeling their writing on someone else's writing. They think it's unethical - which is commendable. Or they're afraid they'll lose their own identity. The point, however, is that we eventually move beyond our models; we take what we need and then we shed those skins and become who we are supposed to become. But — William Zinsser

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn

I was like a small but devastating plague upon humanity. — Darynda Jones

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even the brightest stars had only appeared as silvery smudges in the darkness. In all her life, Rose had never properly seen a star.
Tonight there was a sky full.
Rose looked up, and it was like walking into a dark room and someone switching on the universe. — Hilary McKay

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal. — Reese Witherspoon

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art. — Keaton Stromberg

Natalie Greer is as spoiled as a pan of milk set out in the sun. — Beverly Jenkins

I've seen a lot of people in my life, and I've been with a lot of girls. None of them are as real as you. I'll fuck you, sugar. I'll claim you because you're the meaning of need. You're what I've been lookin' for. — Bella Jewel