In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc. Use this quote
It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable. Use this quote
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. Use this quote
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. Use this quote
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Use this quote
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? Use this quote
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. Use this quote
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Use this quote
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Use this quote
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. Use this quote
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. Use this quote
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. Use this quote
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Use this quote
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on. Use this quote
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. Use this quote
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong. Use this quote
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. Use this quote
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. Use this quote
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. Use this quote
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood. Use this quote
