Literature By Famous Authors Quotes & Sayings

This world's a funny place and it only gets funnier the longer you live in it. — Joe Schreiber

There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.' Katin looked toward the front of the car.
The captain gazed through the curving plate that lapped the roof. His yellow eyes fixed Her consumptive light that pulsed fire-spots in a giant cinder. The light was so weak he did not squint at all.
I am confounded, Katin admitted to his jeweled box, 'nevertheless. The mirror of my observation turns and what first seemed gratuitous I see enough times to realize it is a habit. What I suspected as habit now seems part of a great design. While what I originally took as purpose explodes into gratuitousness. The mirror turns again, and the character I thought obsessed by purpose reveals his obsession is only habit; his habits are gratuitously meaningless; while those actions i construed as gratuitous now reveal a most demonic end. — Samuel R. Delany

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young. — Edgar Cayce

In my mind's eye — William Shakespeare

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat. — Jamie Oliver

I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. — Roger McGough

Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of how his mother loved him when she thought that no one, not even he, could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him: a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant. — Orson Scott Card

Yesterday I was so full of hope. My life seemed blessed, full of adventures and answered prayers, and now something very, very bad has happened and it will never be the same again. And it all happened because I was greedy. Because I couldn't have an ordinary life. Because I was so taken with the wonders of the world that I could not be content with anything less than the constant awareness of its miracles. — Polly Horvath

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. — Rodney Dangerfield

I like a man whose eyes say more than his lips, thought Valancy. — L.M. Montgomery

Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't be heard. How do you get to be so full? And so full of only meaningful things? — Zadie Smith

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse? — Charles Frazier

The presence of so many words inside her head made her incapable of small talk, just at the time when she needed small talk most. — Paullina Simons

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns. — Walt Whitman

I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books. — Michael Gold

Yet this tree, for all that it seemed a patch of darkness past understanding, fascinated me. — Deanna Skaggs