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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

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

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

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead. — James Surowiecki

I like whatever it is that makes you the person you are. — David Levithan

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other — Abraham Lincoln

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair. — Bruce Dickinson

For once, entropy was on my side. — Anonymous

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Why am I attracted to her butt? How weird is that? Why do men like butts anyway? — Brent Weeks

I look eight years older than everybody. — Stanley Elkin

You can only make money doing what you love. — James Altucher

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

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

Success comes from preparation. — E'yen A. Gardner

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

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

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

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

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table. — A.W. Tozer

Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together — Agona Apell

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

He didn't have any words for me. Why should I give him any of mine? — Ally Condie

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

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. — T. Geronimo Johnson

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