Roz Morris > Roz's Quotes

“If you're going to mash two ideas, they need to fit some way. And preferable cause as much tension as harmony.”
― Roz Morris

“At dusk a broken wheel appeared, Held by a hand I could not see, And I knew that someone I feared, Had discovered an empty room in me" ~ 1951”
― Gavin Maxwell

“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.”
― Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water

“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth....Such are the autumn people.”
― Ray Bradbury

“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”
― Clive James, May Week Was in June

“The air between us is not empty space.”
― Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward