E. Miller > E.'s Quotes

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”
― Jack Kerouac

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“The journey itself is my home.”
― Matsuo Basho

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson