
Henri Cole
"There has to be a commitment to emotional truth, and there has to be a little concerto of consonants and vowels."

"There has to be a commitment to emotional truth, and there has to be a little concerto of consonants and vowels."

"Experience in this literature is acoustic and rhythmic rather than psychological in the conventional sense."

"Writers by nature have to have strong egos, not big egos, strong egos."

"There’s lots of ideas to pursue — ideas are easy for me."

"This is not a fairy tale; it’s a war, and in war, there are tragic losses that must be mourned."

"I have never thought of writing as a career. Not even from the beginning. And not anywhere along. It just happens at certain times."

"These haggard pilots from whom I descend: all they wanted was a little nap / while the sky was straight."

“No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.”

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More