Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.
It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles
Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.
When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.
Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.
...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.
I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.