Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.
Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.
We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.
To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.
My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.
It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans.
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.
reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.
Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.
A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.
Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.
But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.
She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.
Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.
God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.
I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.
It's hard, but I try not to think of happiness as either pending or in the past.
She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.