It is easy to
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank. Evgeny Morozov
Crank
Although millions of Americans
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank’s homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery. Emmett Tyrrell
Was the fun in
Was the fun in the fall? Ellen Hopkins
How can I explain
How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall? Ellen Hopkins
Believe it or not,
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. Ellen Hopkins
Crank, You See isn\\’t
Crank, You See isn’t any ordinary monster. It’s like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop … Read more
Life was good before
Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while Ellen Hopkins
I hate this feeling.
I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air. Ellen Hopkins
Taking no chances means
Taking no chances means wasting your dreams. Ellen Hopkins
The so-called ‘crank’ may
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together … Read more