Teri Kelly > Teri's Quotes

“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”
― Alan Ayckbourn

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.”
― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“A fresh start is always made with dirty laundry.”
― teri louise kelly

“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
― Brendan Behan

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”
― Teri Louise Kelly

“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.”
― Teri Louise Kelly

“George Bush junior doesnt have to sweat over getting into heaven, his daddy already bought the place.”
― Teri Louise Kelly

“How about we start making smarter people rather than smarter bombs, and if we cant then at least we'll have a use for all those smarter bombs.”
― Teri Louise Kelly

“What do news services get rated on anyhow, how many times they can use the word fear?”
― Teri Louise Kelly

“Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which begs the question of why you are an exception.”
― Al Stone, Talisman of El

“Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.”
― Richard Brautigan

“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
― William Carlos Williams

“Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first.”
― Teri Louise Kelly