Stiles – Quotes

You may help a

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side. Ernest Newman

Yes, writing a novel,

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market – you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won’t get over the right stile. Elizabeth Bowen

[10 Things I Hate About You] keeps popping up, and it’s become a go-to film specifically for adolescent girls who are trying to find their voice, which is a really important thing, and the characters in the film, the two sisters played by Julia Stiles and Larisa Oleynik, they became archetypes for young teenage girls … Read more

The Invitation, To Tom

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that’s nearest, Though it’s dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. Charles Kingsley

The happy married man

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don’t die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog’s tail. Charles Farrar Browne

I used to want

I used to want to be fully observational, but I’m just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me. Brett Dennen