Tracy Tucker > Tracy's Quotes

“Mom, I have to go. I think this Matt character is here."
"Are you sure it's him?"
Julie peered into the car as the window lowered. "I see a maniacal-looking guy with brightly-colored candy in one hand, and he's waving a sickle in the other. Oh! He's beckoning me to the car. This must be my ride.”
― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

“10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.”
― Brian Clark

“You’re not a doctor. Remember that.
No, but I play one on the internet.”
― Tracy H. Tucker, I Kill Me: Tales of A Jilted Hypochondriac

“I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in the mirror. I knew I should instead be grateful for this time with my two best friends, for having laughed, but I let myself slide anyway. And hoped someone would pull me back up.”
― Tracy H. Tucker, I Kill Me: Tales of A Jilted Hypochondriac

“If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just starting to poke out of the ground.

If I was lucky, he’d have a long cultivator.”
― Tracy H. Tucker, I Kill Me: Tales of A Jilted Hypochondriac

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost