Top 10 Quotes by Brian Morton

What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things,

What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.

Brian Morton

Girl, Book, Simple

You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

Brian Morton

Suits Of Armor, Years, Joy

Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.

Brian Morton

Together, Orbit, Would Be

Brian Morton (1999). “Starting Out in the Evening”, Berkley Publishing Group

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

Brian Morton

Writing, Different, Pieces

The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

Brian Morton

Art, Brain, Viruses

Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.

Brian Morton

Choices

"Breakable You".

The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.

Brian Morton

Memories, Blessed, Imagination

Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

Brian Morton

Shapes, Want, Fabulous