Lucy Ellmann quotes

“Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.”
-- Lucy Ellmann

#Girl Quotes #Baby Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.”
-- Lucy Ellmann

Source : Lucy Ellmann (2013). “Dot in the Universe”, p.164, A&C Black

#Expression Quotes #Agony Quotes #Shopping Quotes

“Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.”
-- Lucy Ellmann

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Blood Quotes

“I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.”
-- Lucy Ellmann

#Mother Quotes #Generations Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press

“If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs”

“I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five,”

“What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.”

“My girl and my kid gets the best, always.”

“I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.”

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”