Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.
The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.
To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.
I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone
You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
I never knew anybody who didn't want to have a great love in their lives and to make a family.
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker