Excellence From Famous Philosophers Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn't feel like work, nor should today's younger reader be underestimated. If done correctly, there is no need to "dumb down" the plot or simplify words. When someone tells me he thought The Serpent's Ring was easy to read, I know I succeeded in my storytelling. — H.B. Bolton

I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close ... — Charles Dickens

She had known deep down for as long as she could remember that something was wrong. What she didn't know, was what happened next. — Alice Darwin

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down. — Lesley Howarth

The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe. — Alexandre Dumas

It's the oasis," said the camel driver.
"Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked.
"Because we have to sleep. — Paulo Coelho

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in. — Wavy Gravy

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains. — George Carlin

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. — Christopher Monckton

She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her — Susan Engberg