Stephen > Stephen's Quotes

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“The world's just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Drones were such a guy thing, she thought. It was downright chromosomal.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant

“Rather, embracing the journey, operating with respect, and being intentional about authentic connections are necessary.”
― Robert P. Mullen, Diversity God's Way

“We need to listen to people based on where they are from and their experiences. With the world infecting us with negative views, their stories are valuable.”
― Robert P. Mullen, Diversity God's Way

“To place ourselves in the role of judge of other people implies that we are smart enough to make such a decision.”
― Robert P. Mullen, Diversity God's Way

“To follow Jesus is to choose His goals and His service, not our own. It is giving up human privilege to gain something better: community.”
― Robert P. Mullen, Diversity God's Way

“Make the effort to take the lead. Building friendships and community take time.”
― Robert P. Mullen, Diversity God's Way

“I hadn’t written the songs back then because I never do. The songs had written me.”
― Ann Wilson, Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll

“No one in the English department was jumping on the desks, and the mathematicians could preach all they wanted about the beauty of numbers: it was all so much Sudoku. And yet somehow, somewhere, the geography joke had come to be and now it was up to Mr Bradshaw, Michael, to defy those expectations and inspire. He led the way, Mrs Fraser – Cleo – herding the stragglers, and down in the valley he spoke of alluvial fans.”
― David Nicholls, You Are Here

“I will clamber through the Clouds and exist. I will get such an accumulation of stupendous recollections that as I walk through the suburbs of London, I may not see them. Keats, in a letter to Robert Haydon, April 1818”
― David Nicholls, You Are Here

“Finally they erected a billboard with a large image of a lot of white people drinking coffee and looking very happy, though quite what that had to do with an old bomb site, or even Unity Street, it was hard to understand. It was mid-afternoon by the time they were finished.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

“And the Miles Davis? What had she thought of that? He was stunned when she paused a moment to collect her thoughts—closing her eyes as if she was searching inside herself for something to say—and then told him: “I know this will sound crazy, Frank, but it was like doors opening, one after another.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

“Twenty-one years can be condensed to very few words. Is that a good thing or a bad one? It’s just the way it is.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

“opposite of what language should do, which is leave a mark. They want the language to be forgettable, familiar, digestible. To enter into the reader and disappear without a trace.”
― Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise

“I loved the smell of incense and cedar, and the warm feeling that comes from being in a record store with hardwood floors, wooden walls, and records sitting in wooden crates.”
― Ian Shane, Postgraduate

“Oh, this is not going to be an uplifting conversation. He’s either going to bore the ever-living hell out of me or try to sell me something. Maybe both.”
― Ian Shane, Radio Radio

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“But I’m starting to think Thoreau might have been full of shit. If we aren’t living for others, maybe we aren’t really living.”
― Jess Walter, So Far Gone

“don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers