Quotes - Christopher Percy (christopherpercy) (West Sussex, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-15 of 15

#1

“And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

tags: beauty, love, poetry

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#2

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

2793 likes

#3

“With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.”
― Steven Erikson

tags: black-company, fiction, glen-cook, review, steven-erikson

53 likes

#4

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: on-writing

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#5

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: on-writing

2181 likes

#6

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: on-writing, storytelling

972 likes

#7

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20725 likes

#8

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”
― Toni Morrison

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#9

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13396 likes

#10

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

6567 likes

#11

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177056 likes

#12

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

89092 likes

#13