Amber Polo > Amber's Quotes

“Never complain you don't have what you don't want.”
― Amber Polo

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Words -- as I speak or write them -- make a path on which I walk.”
― Diane Glancy

“For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce.
... how to set yourself spinning?”
― Annie Dillard

“Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?”
― Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Go ahead. Rip my bodice.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“CHAPTER 10: For questions about librarians featured in erotic literature, you will find absolutely nothing in the public library.”
― Josephine Carr, The Dewey Decimal System of Love

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”
― Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.”
― George Gissing

“There is only one person in the world, aside from your dog, who has any hope of liking you regardless of your success or failure. That's you. I think it's worth a little of your time to get to know that person better.”
― H.L. Stephens

“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained flotsam of your own life. Compulsively recording every morsel you eat, that you're cold, or, I don't know, heartbroken by a football game. An endless stream flowing to an audience of everyone and no one.”
― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange