Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.
In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.
Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words
I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.