Quotes About Impact

This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood.

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

For we have been there in the books and out of the books—and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts

It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not. On the question you raised, the effects of wounds vary greatly. Simple wounds which do not break bone are of little account. They sometimes give confidence. Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.-Interview for the Paris Review, 1956

The movies ruined everything. Like talking about something good. That was what had made the war unreal. Too much talking.

If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.

When we have just seen the sky full of airplanes of a quantity to kill us back to our grandfathers and forward to all unborn grandsons including all cats, goats and bedbugs. Airplanes making a noise to curdle the milk in your mother's breasts as they pass over darkening the sky and roaring like lions and you ask me to take things seriously. I take them too seriously already.

Os nomes penetram-nos até aos ossos.

If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying for, which is to make something that will become a part of the reader's experience and a part of his memory.

Oggi non è che un giorno qualunque di tutti i giorni che verranno, ma ciò che farai in tutti i giorni che verranno dipende da quello che farai oggi.

For Whom the Bell Tolls was an immediate success. Hemingway wrote to his first wife, Hadley, that it was "selling like frozen daiquiris in hell."24 It has had tremendous impact and has been

any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde

Cómo te arruinaste? —preguntó Bill. —De dos formas: primero poco a poco, y luego de repente.

You father was a great man. -But I don't know. It looks to me like, when they turn some man, than there's nothing left of him.

Oggi non è che un giorno qualunque di tutti i giorni che verranno. Ma quello che accadrà in tutti gli altri giorni che verranno può dipendere da quello che farai oggi

It's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing..

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. -

One cat leads to another.

And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

like Ned was killed. We made her go and we hired

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.