Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.
Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.
I needed, I needed...you." "Don't tell me you need me." "But I can't help it. I do
I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
When I was young, I was stupid, and I thought maybe I would write the fancy stuff.
There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.