David > David's Quotes

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

“No one can yet tell me why I am able to forget what I wrote in articles and reviews that I once felt passionate about, and yet am able to recall the entire lyrics of Some Enchanted Evening”
― Joseph Epstein

“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”
― E.B. White

“The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the weather.”
― Henry Mitchell

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.”
― E.B. White