Canadian Author Quotes

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Guy Gavriel Kay

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Josip Novakovich

Boredom, yes, as in those moments when the eyes stare without itinerary—when the brain's hard drive revolves at low rpm, uncoupled from regimen, responsibility, the whole Logistical Life that becomes one's life in the middle years, what Hinduism calls the Householder Phase, to do to do to do to do to do. But now alpha waves are lapping at the shore of the mind as you depart the secretarial for the sacramental realm.

Steven Heighton

The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it—well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet.
The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

Robert Charles Wilson

All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we're going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

Susanna Kearsley

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

Barry Webster (writer)

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

Betty Jane Wylie

I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.

R. Scott Bakker

August is laughing across the sky
laughing, while paddle, canoe and I
Drift, drift
Where hills uplift
either side of the current.. swift

Pauline Johnson

Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

Heather O'Neill

Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

Nicole Brossard

Money and love flow past us, like the waves on that beach with that inner tube that drowned at sea; or was lost. And no man came to put the voiceless conch-shell to his lips.

Austin Clarke (novelist)

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

Sarah Mlynowski

I've always thought the prettiest smiles are the ones that show the most teeth.

It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said. That's true. William agreed.

Life is full of opportunities to feel exactly the way
you want to feel.

Danielle LaPorte

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

Phyllis Gotlieb

Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.