Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.
Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
It's getting the right person that's the challenge.
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
I have no literary approach - except to literature.
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.