Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.
She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.
You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.
I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.
When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I tend to be slightly fastidious in the company I keep. As a woman, you almost need to be.
I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
i'm sorry she never got her miracle. she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.
I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.
The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.