Carol Morgan > Carol's Quotes

“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

“The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.”
― Carol Morgan

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The sound of thunder, the smell of rain. The earth giving birth to another season. Nature's labor pains...beautiful.”
― Carol Morgan

“Time heals all wounds or Time wounds all heels. Take your pick... oh, life's small choices.”
― Carol Morgan

“A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.”
― Carol Morgan

“Who we are takes generations to create and doesn’t end with death.”
― Stanley Siegel

“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.”
― Carol Morgan

“Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come.”
― Carol Morgan

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim

“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs." -”
― Eric Hoffer

“I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
― Imelda Marcos

“I want my children to know what I stood for. I want to be remembered as a person who fought injustice. Suzanne Ahn”
― Suzanne Ahn

“Bartender! Vring me some viskey with chincher ale on de side & don't be stingy, baby. (Garbo's first words in a talking picture)”
― Greta Garbo

“Writing is like talking without anyone to interrupt you.”
― Carol Morgan

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him.”
― Antonin Artaud

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”
― Ben Okri

“الروح الإنسانية هى ضحية حتمية للألم، تقاسى ألم مفاجأة الألم، حتى مع ما تتوقعه من آلام.”
― Fernando Pessoa