Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

John Betjeman

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

Julianna Baggott

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'

Julianna Baggott

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Julianna Baggott

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

Joë Bousquet

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

Edmund Blunden

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Emily Dickinson

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Edward Gorey

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Elizabeth Jennings

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Bob Hicok

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Barbara Kingsolver

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

Bill Maher

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.

Bill Maher

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

Bryan Procter

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie