past quotes

Don't get me wrong, I think young writers ought to be encouraged. They ought to be encouraged to love language more than they love themselves.

Joseph Duemer



whatever vehicle
brought me
here

is lost or
won't start or
has no brakes

SB, from "Snapshot 23 June 02004"



Let's not reinvent the wheel.

Eszter Hargittai



Perhaps we shouldn't ask why women don't have political blogs, but why don't the men have personal blogs?

Laura at new blog 11D



"You know, academic blogging under your real name is sort of like the intellectual equivalent of going to a nude beach."

A colleague of Clancy's, quoted at CultureCat



On blogging: "most of us out here are just stringing lights and waiting for people to drive by."

emjaybee, in Laura's comments



"When you tell me you think an embryo is the same as my kids, you cheapen the worth of my children. They are much, much more than that small thoughtless blob. You reduce the value of family to mindless chemistry and metabolism."

PZ Myers (link from feministe)



"The best theocracy money can buy."

Chris Robinson in a comment at Michael B�rub�'s blog



"Everything in a poet's life — I mean this more or less literally — is an incentive to stop writing."

Ron Silliman



"How many times have you wasted hours on end, scouring the Web, searching for that perfect picture of a dog's cold, wet nose? Admit it, we all have."

Dognose Heaven



"Why judge mainstream fiction by its best examples and other types of fiction by their worst?"

Matthew Cheney at The LitBlog Co-op



On being a feminist: "Part of me wants to say, 'Yeah, someone's going to call you a lesbian. Someone's going to say you're a fat, ugly dyke.' Suck it up."

Jessica Valenti at Salon



"I went to sleep in Indiana and woke up in The Handmaid's Tale."

Samantha Blackmon



"Give an infinite number of monkeys typewriters and they'll produce the works of Shakespeare. Unfortunately, [online] I feel like I'm reading all the books where they didn't."

The Internet is Shit



"Short stories feel right to me. Maybe I have a short-story-length attention span."

Kelly Link



"Do not search for a calf under an ox."

from some email spam



"It's a sorry man who can not invent an Oscar Wilde quote to fit his situation."

Oscar Wilde