Richard Eder famous quotes

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.
-- Richard Eder

#Night #Mind #Legs

A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
-- Richard Eder

#Years #Dust #Chalk

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
-- Richard Eder

#Lying #Book #Silence

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.
-- Richard Eder

#Onions #Layers

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
-- Richard Eder

#Character #Energy #Sophisticated

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.