Daniel Gardina > Daniel's Quotes

“There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke