Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

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

De conversatie wordt soms pas echt levendig en hartelijk als de gasten weer op de gang staan om hun jas aan te trekken.

C. Buddingh'

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

George A. Moore

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Honore de Balzac

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

Hannah Cowley

Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.

Harry Crosby

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

James Merrill

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

Johnny Marr

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

Jack Spicer

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Jean Toomer