Famous Quotes & Sayings

Butch Cassidy

I swear, if Sweetface told me that I rode out of town ten minutes ago, I'd believe him.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.

I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

Tony Stewart

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

Kato Kaelin

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

Kato Kaelin

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

Kato Kaelin

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

Kato Kaelin

It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.

Aron Ralston

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

Kyan Douglas

What we Five do is not just slap a haircut or clothes or exterior style on them. We want what works for them - the rock-n-roll of their lives.

Had he asked any questions before he flew off the handle, he would have realized that everyone with me (both male and female) were only friends.

Samantha Smith

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

Ken Jennings

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.