Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

Carol Ann Duffy

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

Carl Lewis

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

Carl Lewis

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Craig Raine

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Christina Rossetti

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Cheryl Strayed

You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

Howard Nemerov

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Howard Nemerov

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Henry Rollins

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

Howard Rheingold

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Howard Rheingold

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Ian Rankin

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

John Betjeman

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Edgar Lee Masters

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

Barbara Kingsolver

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

Barbara Kingsolver

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver