“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Contact
― Contact
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
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“When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys
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