Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Terry Brooks

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Adrienne Rich

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Jupiter Hammon

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.

Philip K. Dick

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Siri Hustvedt

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Sophocles

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Alexander Pope

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlotte Bronte

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Christopher Lasch

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Chaim Potok

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Dorothy Canfield Fisher