Carol Emshwiller Quotes

• I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Grateful, Afar, Kind

  4 Copiar cita

• Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Snakes, Elephants, Grace

  Carol Emshwiller (2004). “Carmen Dog”, p.158, Small Beer Press

  7 Copiar cita

• I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  6 Copiar cita

• Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Mean, Writing, Secret

  4 Copiar cita

• Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

  Carol Emshwiller

  Arte, Real, Pensamiento

  Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.92, Small Beer Press

  4 Copiar cita

• May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Real, Ser, Alegría

  Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.78, Small Beer Press

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Avram Davidson

Enlace Kelly

John Kessel

R. A. Lafferty

Kit Reed

Barry N. Malzberg

James Tiptree Jr.

Gardner Dozois