Beck > Beck's Quotes

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.

Bill James”
― Michael Lewis, Moneyball

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
― bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work