Nancy Kennedy > Nancy's Quotes

“In the particular is contained the universal.”
― James Joyce

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”
― Clive James

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

“If it please you, the lady's name again?" says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.”
― Frederick Buechner

“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.”
― Samuel Johnson