Elyce Wakerman > Elyce's Quotes

“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”
― Isaac Babel

“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
― Edith Wharton

“Water, is taught by thirst.”
― Emily Dickinson

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson

“What is a fiction writer after all, but a judge, a dispenser of justice, an arranger of fates, an agent, above all, of moral order?”
― Jonathan Dee