Voltaires Sweet Novel Quotes & Sayings

It is immensely rewarding to work carefully with Shakespeare's language so that the words, the sentences, the wordplay, and the implied stage action all become clear - as readers for the past four centuries have discovered. It may be more pleasurable to attend a good performance of a play - though not everyone has thought so. But the joy of being able to stage one of Shakespeare's plays in one's imagination, to return to passages that continue to yield further meanings (or further questions) the more one reads them - these are pleasures that, for many, rival (or at least augment) those of the performed text, and certainly make it worth considerable effort to "break the code" of Elizabethan poetic drama and let free the remarkable language that makes up a Shakespeare text. — William Shakespeare

Meanwhile the doctor in Kaitaia had made known to the Education Dept the behaviour patterns of the Rusts in Te Hapua. The Dept always interfered in the private lives of teachers. Break up in marriage was not to be tolerated and an intervention of this authority forced the Rusts to report to Parawera School in the Waikato. — Theresa Sjoquist

Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint's crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball. — Cole Alpaugh

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. — George Orwell

New Rule: The Napa Valley is Disneyland for alcoholics. Be honest, you're not visiting wineries in four days because you're an oenophile, you're doing it because you're a drunk. It's the only place in America where you can pass out in a stranger's house and it's okay, because it's a B&B and you paid for it. — Bill Maher

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die. — Stephen King

For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it? — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. — Chris Matthews

Jesus was in the business of re-humanizing all of creation. — Nathan Albert

And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin? — Jules Verne

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells

When the light powerfully shines upon us, the darkness cannot dare to touch us! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's a rare thing to be with another person and not feel an obligation to fill every second with talk. — Jessica Park

There could be no snakes in Quintana Roo's garden.
Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll. — Joan Didion