Corinna Bechko > Corinna's Quotes

“Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others”
― William Gibson

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums. ”
― Richard Fortey, Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

“You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.”
― Richard Fortey

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
― John Buchan

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
― Nick Cave

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
― Robert Frost

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Eternal Husband

“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“One should never underestimate the power of books.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.”
― Robertson Davies

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech