Joshua Wright > Joshua's Quotes

“You can’t throw us into space,” yelled Ford, “we’re trying to write a book.” “Resistance is useless!” shouted the Vogon guard back at him. It was the first phrase he’d learned when he joined the Vogon Guard Corps.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Do you seek to bribe Death?” Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.”
― Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse

“Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.”
― Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse

“A good notion for a novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn’t deserve it.”
― Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse

“You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human, which I devoutly hope you never will have.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Though I must say all this has given me a new glimpse of the ongoingness of the world. We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have ever cared for. That is just the way of it, and it is remarkable.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“All these things, realities full of phantasma, phantasmagoria full of realities, had eventually created in him an inner state of a kind that was almost indescribable.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables