128 Quotes by James Richardson

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

a little run in the sheer black of the universe

She started reading novels to put herself in the way of secret lives.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.