Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.