Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.
If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do.
Liar's such a strong word. I prefer to think of it as me omitting some of the details" - Alex
To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.
I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.
In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.
Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.
Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.
Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.