Steven > Steven's Quotes

“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.”
― Pablo Picasso

“A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.”
― John D. MacDonald

“She carried her head like a lady and her body like a snake.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, Dread Journey

“I never knew anyone who fucked up their life good who didn't think they were special. The holes they dug themselves into were exactly the shape of their dreams”
― Benjamin Whitmer, Pike

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings