Famous quotes by Writers

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery. He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Think Tank, noun: The shower"

Craig Bruce, Writer

"If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out"

Craig Bruce, Writer

"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it"

Craig Bruce, Writer

"Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years"

Craig Bruce, Writer

"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses"

John Florio, Writer

"The streets were dark with something more than night"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"It is not a fragrant world"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Imagination is the eye of the soul"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes"

Karl Kraus, Writer

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