Geoff Nicholson Quotes

I held her feet in my hands.

But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we'll make a better job of it next time. Unless you're a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however "successful " is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.

You have demons?"
"Yes."
That answer didn't surprise me, although how these demons connected with the movie was anybody's guess.
"Volkswagen demons," he said.
"You have Volkswagen demons?"
"Yes. There. I said it. Happy now?

"Yes."
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Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place ... and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.