I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. – Dave Eggers
Being insecure – Im a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I dont drop the key. – M. Night Shyamalan
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing…. – Alexander Smith, “An Essay on an Old Subject”
A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. Were trying constantly to figure out whats OK and whats not OK. And its hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing. – Daniel H. Wilson
