Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.
Sometimes I think that all anyone needs in life is lots of popcorn and a few Lovelies
I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.
It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?
It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others
My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight
Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.
Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent
I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.