Constant > Constant's Quotes

“We understand more than we know.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

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

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give,”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“And how easily a hand becomes a fist.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“How can I have behaved so badly, so cruelly, so stupidly? you will ask. You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Love is a discipline, like prayer,” I said.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living