Ray Van Horn, Jr. > Ray's Quotes

“Sloan enjoys writing in the fictional world because in fiction you can be anything, do anything...even fall in love for the first time over and over again.”
― Sloan Parker

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.”
― Stephen King

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
― Voltaire, Dialogues satiriques philosophiques: suivis du sermon des cinquante

“Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn.”
― Toni Morrison

“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
― Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel And Stella

“It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.”
― Elinor Fuchs

“I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
― James Baldwin

“Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.”
― Bob Dylan

“And when the clothes are strewn,
Don't be afraid of the room.
Touch the fullness of her breast,
Feel the love of her caress...
She will be your living end.

- Lady Grinning Soul”
― David Bowie