Top 90 Kevin Ansbro Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you – especially if you’re dining alone.”

— Kevin Ansbro

2. “Focus on an ocean of positives, not a puddle of negatives.”

— Kevin Ansbro

3. “A life without friends is like a sky without stars.”

— Kevin Ansbro

4. “Prejudice wears a variety of hats, none of them becoming.”

— Kevin Ansbro

5. “There are but twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, yet I must have read a quadrillion words.”

— Kevin Ansbro

6. “A book cannot spring to life unless it is being read.”

— Kevin Ansbro

7. “Then he heard a distant rumble – louder than thunder. Looking out to sea, Sawat saw a grey wall of water, the width of the horizon, tumbling at high speed towards the shoreline.”

— Kevin Ansbro

8. “All three were wild-haired and bedraggled, as if they had just staggered from a fight to the death with a family of chimpanzees.”

— Kevin Ansbro

9. “A woman is like an ocean, sir, beautiful to look at but dangerous to cross.”

— Kevin Ansbro

10. “Grandma’s last year was spent ghosting the bleached corridors of a chintzy care home. Her face became buckled with cancer and she was also irretrievably lost in a fog of dementia.”

— Kevin Ansbro

11. “Though soulmates aren’t looking for you, they will find you.”

— Kevin Ansbro

12. “My muse is a restless genie, a conniving devil, a wanton mistress and a fairy godmother. At times he’s Othello’s Iago, at others he’s Clarence from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’.”

— Kevin Ansbro

13. “When life gives you lemons, don’t waste your time making lemonade.”

— Kevin Ansbro

14. “Of course God exists. But God is no more a man than you are a snowflake.”

— Kevin Ansbro

15. “The snow fell as softly as a poet’s tears.”

— Kevin Ansbro

16. “To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.”

— Kevin Ansbro

17. “We each harbour a talent. It hibernates within us, snug yet eager, waiting for the first darling buds of opportunity to emerge.”

— Kevin Ansbro

18. “Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”

— Kevin Ansbro

19. “Faith is not like a raincoat, only to be worn on drizzly days.”

— Kevin Ansbro

20. “May your talent always be greater than your heartache.”

— Kevin Ansbro

21. “Sadly, there are writers who wouldn’t know an umlaut from an omelet.”

— Kevin Ansbro

22. “Some books send you around the world, while others send you around the bend.”

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23. “Pah! I wave my cuff at hindsight as if it were a bothersome fly. Life can only be lived forwards, Ulysses. All that matters is what you do now.”

— Kevin Ansbro

24. “Awash with trepidation, he was suddenly on the mattress, lured like an errant sailor onto a siren’s rocky shore.”

— Kevin Ansbro

25. “Cluttered minds think alike.”

— Kevin Ansbro

26. “Our entire universe is but a snow globe in a giant’s hand.”

— Kevin Ansbro

27. “The early word catches the poem.”

— Kevin Ansbro

28. “In grave danger of suffocation, the mermaid peeled away from him and emitted a sonar wail that woke drowned sailors from their oyster beds.”

— Kevin Ansbro

29. “One’s ego is the enemy of objectivity.”

— Kevin Ansbro

30. “The oak trees had shed their leaves, revealing the inky thumbprints of crows’ nests in the crackle glaze of dark branches.”

— Kevin Ansbro

31. “Life will return you to normality in the anaesthesia of time.”

— Kevin Ansbro

32. “I bear the Russian man no ill. A Stanislav has as much right to walk God’s earth as does a Stanley.”

— Kevin Ansbro

33. “A book should grab you by the lapels and kiss you into tomorrow.”

— Kevin Ansbro

34. “Within the pages of books, I’ve journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe.”

— Kevin Ansbro

35. “Disregard the coronavirus as you would a cannibal kissing your face.”

— Kevin Ansbro

36. “A wind that howled like a drowning man.”

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37. “Conceit is the enemy of creativity.”

— Kevin Ansbro

38. “A book doesn’t come alive until it is being read.”

— Kevin Ansbro

39. “Grief brings many false dawns, but a solicitude of normality will undoubtedly return.”

— Kevin Ansbro

40. “The Earth has music for those who listen.” – Kevin Ansbro.”

— Kevin Ansbro

41. “Beautiful prose is a floundering fish if it doesn’t have a story to swim in.”

— Kevin Ansbro

42. “A howl is as infectious to a wolf as a yawn is to a human.”

— Kevin Ansbro

43. “Some authors wouldn’t know their syntax from a Tampax.”

— Kevin Ansbro

44. “A story has to glide like a yacht, not bump along like a supermarket trolley.”

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45. “Within the pages of books, I’ve journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

46. “May the key of inspiration unlock your dungeon of creativity.”

— Kevin Ansbro

47. “Writing should beguile us, not just take us from A to B to Zzzzz.”

— Kevin Ansbro

48. “Ulysses found himself hopelessly adrift within the confines of a yew-hedge maze, the leaf tips of which were lit by a Communion-wafer moon that rested on the black tongue of night.”

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49. “Poppy, a chronic insomniac in her first life, since found that sleep arrived easily, washing over her in a soporific tide that carried with it the flotsam of ambrosial dreams.”

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50. “In writing terms, even lilies need to be gilded.”

— Kevin Ansbro