Mountaintops Are For Views Quotes & Sayings

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time. — Umberto Eco

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys. — Billy Graham

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. — Barbara Stanwyck

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better. — Alan Furst

The man in the water saw the eye of the man on the bridge gazing into his own through the sights of the rifle. He observed that it was a gray eye and remembered having read that gray eyes were keenest, and that all famous markmen had them. Nevertheless, — Ambrose Bierce

Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy. — Debasish Mridha

Scott's mind was racing, struggling to comprehend the events unfolding around him. They were talking about disposing of Twinkle like he was a rusty old bike that no-one rode anymore. — R.D. Ronald