Something Quotes

Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

One more thing. I sold the mustang. Too conspicuous. Don’t get too excited, but i bought you a little something with the extra cash. I heard you’ve had your eye on a volkswagen. The owner is dropping it by tomorrow. I paid for a full tank of gas, so make sure she delivers.

Well maybe i’ll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain.

A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those.

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.