Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.
I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.
and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.
Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.
We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."
But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.
I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.
Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.
Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.
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Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.
I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values.
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.