Djhello’s most recent Quotables

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

...It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without [necessarily] accepting it.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones

Chance Favors the Connected Mind

It's no use trying to do something that somebody else has done as well as it can be done. Do something different.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

[Liam is] rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He's the angriest man you'll ever meet. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup.

How can you write a happy play? Drama is about conflict and degrees of perturbation, disarray. I've never been able to write a happy play, but I've been able to enjoy a happy life.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

Write the book you want to read.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'yes', I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you'.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.