90 Quotes

“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on something. I respect that kind of care for what is being done. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they an best say what they are meant to say. If the words are heavy with the writer's own unbridled emotions, or if they are imprecise and inaccurate for some other reason -- if the worlds are in any way blurred -- the reader's eyes will slide right over them and nothing will be achieved. Henry James called this sort of hapless writing 'weak specification'.”
― Raymond Carver, Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

“Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

“In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

“The formula for success is 2% talent, 8% luck, and 90% of showing up every day.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minutes' regulated time, he makes no influence. Strike now before it becomes too late!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world”
― Sunday Adelaja

“books are awsome”
― Jenny Nimmo

“...about the little lake on the mountain that had turned into a marsh and the large one that had remained a lake. A being was either strong enough to hold their ground or they became small and bottomless and started feeding on themselves. They turned into something they never saw coming. Something they never intended.”
― cecilia ekback