Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!
That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.
Bill Goldberg kicked me in the head and ended my career because he didn't know what he was doing.
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.
People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.
It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work.
You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.