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It's so Quite around here, I'm sure I heard a Bird Fart! — Dorothy Garlock

I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning. — N.R. Walker

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion
the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube? — Cassandra Clare

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads. — Stanley Elkin

It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake. — Allen Elkin

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. — Sharon Olds

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough. — Stanley Elkin

I look eight years older than everybody. — Stanley Elkin

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. — Stanley Elkin

Soul is a feeling, not a color, — Lionel Richie

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. — Logan Pearsall Smith

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater. — Stanley Elkin

The furthest out is the only place to be. — Stanley Elkin

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names. — Bo Burnham

Just because an impressive storm doesn't touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. — Catherine Deneuve

There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have. — Robin Hobb

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does. — Stanley Elkin

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin

There are different ways of seeing things. That's art. There is no one interpretation. — Sharon Leach

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf. — Stanley Elkin

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays — Stanley Elkin

A joke's a joke; you can either take it, or you can't. — Brian Dunkleman

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood. — Stanley Elkin

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. — Stanley Elkin

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be. — Stanley Elkin

Peace is restrained. — Veronica Roth

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin

I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick - schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry — Stanley Elkin