Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

Jessica Hagedorn

When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

James Patterson

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

Mohsin Hamid

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Philip James Bailey

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

A. S. Byatt

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Samuel Smiles

I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.

Cooking with Fernet Branca

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

The Riddle

You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.

Red Doc>

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.

How to Save Your Own Life

Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness —but each scar is a sign your system is working.

Hourglass Museum

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Hourglass Museum

I can’t relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.

Hourglass Museum

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

Mary Oliver

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

Mary Oliver

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

Meghan O'Rourke

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Meghan O'Rourke