The Curious Quote Wall: 2

"I drink a lot about my thinking problem."- Kevin Young

"I try to find the human in the myth and the myth in the human."- Lucille Clifton

"You were unraveled in childhood til you were everything."- Brenda Hillman

"Can someone please tell me when my foot started bleeding."-Shriner @ Morning Star

"The Blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad or a bad woman feelin' good" -Kevin Young

"We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it."-Flannery O'Connor

"If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader."-Flannery O'Connor

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher..."-Flannery O'Connor