Beth > Beth's Quotes

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
― Mik Everett

“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
― Bill Vaughan

“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
― Albert Einstein

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory...”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Creation from chaos is natural. We've come to a place where we've realized that we have this actual physical need to create things. We've discovered that we hate people en masse, we're sick of homogenized culture, and these realizations have left holes in our hearts. We create to fill those holes, to be able to sleep at night knowing we've done something, even a small something, to confront the manufactured culture that is currently being churned out.”
― Renee Rigdon

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“In smaller, more familiar things, memory weaves her strongest enchantments, holding us at her mercy with some trifle, some echo, a tone of voice, a scent of tar and seaweed on the quay. . . . This surely is the meaning of home—a place where every day is multiplied by all the days before it.”
― Freya Stark