H.L. Walton > H.L.'s Quotes

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. Today is when we must act to change the impression of our past and pave the road to our futures.”
― Helen Deakin

“Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!”
― Helen Deakin

“Writing is a form of art. It is a skill; a gift. It is addiction; passion; love. It is my life.”
― Helen Deakin

“Every second of every moment should be cherished. Life is beautiful; it is a gift and it has an expiry date.”
― Helen Deakin

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:

"You love to figure out things as much as I do,” Piper said.

“Like what?” Bill asked.

“You fix broken stuff,” Piper replied.

“Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.”
― Ed Lynskey, The Corpse Wore Gingham

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“some want a god who doesn't carry a sword”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, River of Ink

“I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun. ... if I have to engage somebody between the counter and the door, only the political autobiographies are in danger and who gives a fuck about those?”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Carter & Lovecraft

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul”
― Bob Dylan, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966

“Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so—pardon the pun—so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn’t it? People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.

In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
― Victor Hugo

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts