Block Quotes

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.

We need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

I’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner’s block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.

… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.

When we are in our studios, in our private space.

God is Love’ means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up.