Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.