“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.” MenBookStatesNationsUnitedHistoryUnited StatesDogColdPagesMarkBlueSoldierPassingPassingsDirtyShirtsFiftyRidingCentsStarksHistory BooksForts Author:Frank Nugent
“If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering.” IfsColdReaderPagesAtmosphereChillForeboding Book:Making Shapely Fiction Source: Making Shapely Fiction
“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.” SoulReadingStepsFailingColdEternalPagesWinterVarietySunshineAppetiteReignHailBridegroom Author:Laurence Sterne
“...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.” WritingYoungPoetColdBedPagesEarsLet MeTesting Author:Stanley Kunitz
“I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.” ShouldMadeBookWholeFeltSoundFeetMissingHairColdShapesBedPagesShadowBreathsLegsSmellThrownChairsWetDesksHomeworkTowelsShufflingSated Book:Linger Source: Linger