Marcel Proust Quotes and Sayings

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. It ... Continue Reading →

Terry Prachett Quotes and Sayings

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the ... Continue Reading →

Chaim Potok Quotes and Sayings

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. And these two ... Continue Reading →

Jodi Picoult Quotes and Sayings

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say. I ... Continue Reading →

Jean Paul Quotes and Sayings

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. Age does not matter if the matter ... Continue Reading →

Sara Paretsky Quotes and Sayings

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. I ... Continue Reading →

Camille Paglia Quotes and Sayings

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their ... Continue Reading →

George Orwell Quotes and Sayings

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. Big Brother is watching you. Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly ... Continue Reading →

Flannery O’Connor Quotes and Sayings

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. Faith is what someone knows to ... Continue Reading →

Anais Nin Quotes and Sayings

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. How ... Continue Reading →

John Burroughs Quotes and Sayings

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which ... Continue Reading →