870 Quotes by Patti Smith

You know, the dreams you had for me weren't my dreams," he said. "Maybe those dreamsare meant for you.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

Why do we write? A chorus erupts. Because we cannot simply live.

I told him that I would continue our work, our collaboration, for as long as I lived. Will you write our story? Do you want me to? You have to he said no one but you can write it. I will do it, I promised, though I knew it would be a vow difficult to keep. I love you Patti. I love you Robert. And he was wheeled away for tests and I never heard him speak again. Save for his breath, which seemed to fill his hospital room as he lay dying. (p. 287)

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.