Quotes 121 till 140 of 146.
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To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
The Dying Animal (2001) -
Virtue, if not in action, is a vice.
The Maid of Honour (1632) 1, 1 -
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.
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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less... This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
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When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.
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When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'
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When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Festus (1813) A Country Town -
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
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With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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