Charlie Fletcher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
I like poems that are daggers that sing.
You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.
When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

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