Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.
With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.
One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.
Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.
From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.
Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.
The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?
Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)
She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)