Stalling Quotes

“I heard the car door shut and then Fabian's voice. "You won't believe what I found around the edge of your property," the ghost announced. "A cave with prehistoric painting inside it!" I rolled my eyes. That was the best tactic Fabian could come up with? This was a vampire he was trying to stall, not a paleontologist.”

“Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”

“The bats inebriate the sky . . .”

“. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.”

“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.”

“Stop stalling. Get out of your own way and go for it.”

“Its only called PTDS if you stop fighting.”

“People fight harder for power than they do for freedom despite freedom is power.”

“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”

“Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.)”