Famous quotes by Authors

"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life"

Russell Banks, Author

"We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs"

Kenneth Clark, Author

"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it"

Margot Asquith, Author

"I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"Chance is a name for our ignorance"

Leslie Stephen, Author

"Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark"

Dan Millman, Author

"Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals, which raises the question, how good are these connections?"

Elizabeth Janeway, Author

"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Well, first of all, going off with Dianetics was based upon a thought of mine"

A. E. van Vogt, Author

"Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness"

Kent Nerburn, Author

"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right"

William Safire, Author

"Politics is the enemy of the imagination"

Ian Mcewan, Author

"People die when curiosity goes"

Graham Swift, Author

"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine"

Kenneth Anger, Author

"It does not pay a prophet to be too specific"

L. Sprague de Camp, Author

"California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land"

Christopher Isherwood, Author

"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"Fear and hope are alike underneath"

Richard Ford, Author

"A women's greatest asset is her beauty"

Alex Comfort, Author

"Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech"

Auberon Waugh, Author

"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things"

Edward Cocker, Author

"Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing"

Marie Carmichael Stopes, Author

"The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that"

John Sterling, Author

"To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect"

Lu Xun, Author

"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity"

Margaret Halsey, Author

"What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation"

Malcolm Gladwell, Author

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