Kent Winward > Kent's Quotes

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers—not all of whom are modern . . . I mean, if you are willing to make allowances for the way English has changed, you can go way, way back with this— becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. So probably the smart thing to say is that lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.”
― David Foster Wallace, Quack This Way

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by payment plans”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Better to have been a dickhead and seen it,
than be a cunt all your life and not know it.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Choose Trainspotting.”
― Harry Whitewolf, Rhyme and Rebellion

“i wasted all of my
outrage on my fucking religion.
it should have been wasted on god-
cut out the middle man.”
― J.A. Carter-Winward, No Apologies

“they say i write like a man,
like that's supposed to be
the ultimate fucking compliment.
i say i write like a woman
who isn't afraid.”
― J.A. Carter-Winward, No Secrets

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“In 2010, the psychiatrist Thomas Insel, then director of NIMH, called for the research community to redefine schizophrenia as “a collection of neurodevelopmental disorders,” not one single disease. The end of schizophrenia as a monolithic diagnosis could mean the beginning of the end of the stigma surrounding the condition. What if schizophrenia wasn’t a disease at all, but a symptom? “The metaphor I use is that years ago, clinicians used to look at ‘fever’ as one disease,” said John McGrath, an epidemiologist with Australia’s Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and one of the world’s authorities on quantifying populations of mentally ill people. “Then they split it into different types of fevers. And then they realized it’s just a nonspecific reaction to various illnesses. Psychosis is just what the brain does when it’s not working very well.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in...does me in.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Darkness Plays Favorites

“I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks.
Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“I won't sleep
if that's what it takes
to not wake up
as myself”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to

“Sin - sin is God’s most precious gift.”
― Halldór Laxness

“I am aware that shortly I shall exist as only a shelf-ful of books plus a cluster of Biographical Anecdotes. And life is not a tragedy with a happy ending, despite what religion promises; rather, it is a farce with a tragic ending, or, at best, a light comedy with a sad ending.”
― Julian Barnes, Departure