Gabby Risley > Gabby's Quotes

“It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”
― Anne Bogart

“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.”
― Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares

“What science does is what I would like more literature to do too: show us that we are living in an exquisitely complicated world that is not all about us. It does not belong to us alone. It never has done.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“Someone once told me that every writer has a subject that underlies everything they write. It can be love or death, betrayal or belonging, home or hope or exile. I choose to think that my subject is love, and most specifically love for the glittering world of non-human life around us.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“Literature can teach us the qualitative texture of the world. And we need it to. We need to communicate the value of things, so that more of us might fight to save them.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights