Quotidian Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
-
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,…
— Geraldine Brooks
-
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
— Anita Diament
-
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was…
— M. John Harrison
-
Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with…
— David Rakoff
-
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's…
— Charles S. Maier
-
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom…
— Monica Ali
-
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every…
— Graydon Carter
-
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes…
— Ben Marcus
-
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
-
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian…
— Lionel Shriver
-
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits…
— John Updike
-
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition…
— Andrew Solomon
-
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life -…
— Harvey Pekar
Who Wrote These Quotidian Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Quotidian Quotes as follows: