Writing Quote by Steven Millhauser

“(in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead…

— Kyle Mills

“Soon enough, Miner stopped caring who was watching - for a brief time, he and Ennek were a universe of two.”

— Kim Fielding

“Or, to put it another way, the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Pulaski had never been one for the overwrought plot; any entanglement he could imagine between these two lines of evidence was willful to the…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn’t working, only to…

— Michael Lewis

“He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe…

— Edith Wharton

“In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch…

— Zach Helm

“Reason cannot operate without imagination.”

— Andrew Davison

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé

“Or was it just the eyes of the watcher that gave character to the world?”

— David Anthony Durham

“For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with…

— Tennessee Williams

“...but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably…

— Terry Pratchett