Debbie Robson > Debbie's Quotes

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Tomorrow is the end of the world and I am just wandering around and thinking only of happiness….”
― Alexandar Tomov, Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“I needed to become a fully functional, contributing member of my life”
― Vicki Wilson, How to Start Living or Die Trying

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“There is something inherently deceptive about reality.”
― Alexandar Tomov

“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

“On winter mornings when it's dark and the air is crisp, the lights are still shining and the first customers are gathered at the counter like conspirators. They give you the illusion that the day will be a new adventure. And that illusion stats with you for at least some of the morning.”
― Patrick Modiano, La Petite Bijou

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

“She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of longing, forever poised on desire’s trembling tip, before everything is wrecked.”
― Susan Johnson, My Hundred Lovers

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“Love is a quality of god talented to humankind”
― Mahiraj Jadeja, A Lover's Will

“she creates runs and ends the world”
― Mahiraj Jadeja, A Lover's Will

“She is the queen and I am the king,
I rule everything but she rules me,
Thus she rules everything backhandedly”
― Mahiraj Jadeja, A Lover's Will

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Mirror is the best friend of a woman”
― Mahiraj Jadeja, A Lover's Will

“Giving love was her virtue”
― Mahiraj Jadeja, A Lover's Will

“Who the hell said love is not an agreement?”
― Mahiraj Jadeja, A Lover's Will