Dennis Covington quotes

“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”
-- Dennis Covington

Source : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.226, Da Capo Press

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“Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
-- Dennis Covington

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“Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.”
-- Dennis Covington

Source : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.236, Da Capo Press

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“At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.”
-- Dennis Covington

Source : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.174, Da Capo Press

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“An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.”
-- Dennis Covington

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“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

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

“I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.”

Source : "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". Press Conference, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

“The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.”

“It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.”

Source : Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson, Laura Huliska-Beith (2001). “Edward Lear”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

“Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows”

“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”

“Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.”

“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.287, Penguin