Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.
Richard Brautigan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Elizabeth
Opened
Door
Doors
Nice
Voice
Found
Another
More quotes by Richard Brautigan
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.
Richard Brautigan
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
Richard Brautigan
I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.
Richard Brautigan
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
Richard Brautigan
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.
Richard Brautigan
You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
Richard Brautigan
I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
Richard Brautigan
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.
Richard Brautigan
Her sunny side was always up.
Richard Brautigan
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
Richard Brautigan
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.
Richard Brautigan
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
Richard Brautigan
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
Richard Brautigan
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
Richard Brautigan
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
Richard Brautigan
I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
Richard Brautigan
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
Richard Brautigan
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
Richard Brautigan
I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches it must be Halloween in the sea
Richard Brautigan
