We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.
When I was a child I had a fishless aquarium. My father set it up for me with gravel and plants and pebbles before he'd got the fish and I asked him to leave it as it was for a while. The pump kept up...
Stoans want to be lissent to. Them big brown stoans in the formers feal they want to stan up and talk like men. Some times youwl see them lying on the groun with ther humps and hollers theywl say to y...
There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.'Did he bite you?' said Father.'No,' said Frances.'Did he scratch you?' said Mother.'No,' said Frances.'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will n...
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
Sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal
Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day....
O what we ben! And what we come to!
It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.
Raining agen it wer nex morning. Theres rains and rains. This 1 wer coming down in a way as took the hart and hoap out of you there wer a kynd of brilyants in the grey it wer too hard it wer too else...
Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...)'How can the wind have a job?' asked Frances. ' has a job,' said Father.'I have to go to my office every morning at nine o'clock. T...
Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which they drew the human figure; now there are very few who...
People ask me how I got from St Eustace to Riddley Walker and all I can say is that it’s a matter of being friends with your head. Things come into the mind and wait to hook up with other things; ther...
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives bu...
I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER
Our woal life is a idear we dint think of nor we dont know what it is.
Yes thats what I done you sorry sods I over the fents and off with the dogs...
If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.
Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.
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