Verlyn Klinkenborg Quotes

9 quotes in 285 categories

• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have…
• Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without…
• Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
• Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.
• Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes…
• (Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become…
• Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.
• I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma…
• A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,

Browse Verlyn Klinkenborg Quotes by Category