Snapshot Quotes

“and all I could think was that I should have been the one with the camera, because the two of you were such a funny picture. Instead, we have this blurry, happy shot, which must mean something to you if you carry it around like this, folded to fit.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“Life is not a snapshot, it's a filmstrip.”
― Dave Ramsey

“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the doing how ready I had to be. Life doesn't hold still. A good snapshot stopped a moment from running away. Photography taught me that to be able to capture transience, by being ready to click the shutter at the crucial moment, was the greatest need I had. Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it. These were things a writer needed to know. And I felt the need to hold transient life in words - there's so much more of life that only words can convey - strongly enough to last me as long as I lived. The direction my mind took was a writer's direction from the start, not a photographer's or a recorder's.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“The sky was the exact filthy gray of a Polaroid just beginning to develop.”
― joe hill, Strange Weather: Four Short Novels

“So... you love my abs? I knew it. My butt is pretty awesome too, isn't it?

Sorry, Delilah has left the building.

Look, you don't have to beg. I'll send you a picture.

Don't you dare!

I lift up my shirt, take a quick picture of my abs, and send it.

Asshole!

Now, Delilah, don't get kinky with your requests. I draw the line at ass shots.

ARGH!”
― Kristen Callihan, Dear Enemy