Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.
..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.
It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.
We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.
Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.
I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.
I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.
So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.
Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
I think N.Y.C. definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path.
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.
…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.
Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.
We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.