“Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.”
-from When Women Were Birds
Category Archives: Quotes
“Of course it is impossible to tell the truth. For example, how does one know it? I will not belabor the difficulty by telling you how hard I have tried. And if compulsion forces me to tell the truth, it may also lead me into error, or invention.”
Kate Millett Said
What Mary Oliver Said
Is the soul solid, like iron?
Or is it tender and breakable, like
the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl?
“Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.”
Paulo Coelho Said
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
From The Critic as Artist
Oscar Wilde Said
Ray Bradbury on Libraries
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Jack London Said
“A sentence should read as if the author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.” – From Sentences and Thinking, by Foerster & Steadman
On Sentences and Thinking
Seneca the Younger Said
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“You become a writer because you need to become a writer – nothing else.”
