Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.
She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.
Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.
When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.
Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.
After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.
If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.
God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.
When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.