Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.
Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.
Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.
I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.
There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
He stole my breathe away the moment we first spoke. He's my air." -Sadie White
It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.
'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.
Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.
Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.