only a glass QUOTES

1 " Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the
moon.
It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he
could be told.
It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.
It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak. "

― Wallace Stevens

2 " When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3 " When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. "

4 " When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. "