Quote for Today: Markus Zusak
We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We …
Quote for Today: Michele Jennae
On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the days Painting pictures over months and Writing our …
Quote for Today: Edmund de Waal
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no …
Quote for Today: Kate Morton
Apart from such visits, for the first time in her life Eliza was truly alone. In the beginning, unfamiliar sounds, nocturnal sounds, disturbed her, but as the days passed she …
Quote for Today: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Nature is a haunted house–but Art–a house that tries to be haunted. —Emily Dickinson, Letters Image: Punderson Manor by Katherine McDaniel, 2017
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived …
Quote for Today: Alice Munro
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas …
Quote for Today: Arundhati Roy
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our …
Quote for Today: Crystal Woods
The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we’re forced to become acquainted with sadness. There’s no antibiotic for the ridding of distress, and …