John Crowley Quotes

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• It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to…
• The things that make us happy make us wise.
• Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You…
• The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
• Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a…
• The universe is Time's body.
• It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a…
• First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt,…
• Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
• She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her…
• God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life,…
• There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as…
• Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour…
• Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle,…
• Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to…
• I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
• Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
• But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get…
• Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a…
• The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.

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