Wolitzer Author Quotes & Sayings

Is that the true, the supreme terror, to discover that I am the wizened youth whose cries no one can hear? — Roberto Bolano

A man in loss is not a man to trust. — Auliq Ice

If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have not order within him
His family will not act with due order;
And if the prince have not order within him
He can not put order in his dominions. — Ezra Pound

Mother's estate - our estate - a thousand acres centered in a million more. Lawns the size of small prairies with grass so perfect it beckoned a body to lie on it, to nap on its soft perfection. Noble shade trees making sundials of the Earth, their shadows circling in stately procession; now mingling, now contracting to midday, finally stretching eastward with the dying of the day. Royal oak. Giant elms. Cottonwood and cypress and redwood and bonsai. Banyan trees lowering new trunks like smooth-sided columns in a temple roofed by sky. Willows lining carefully laid canals and haphazard streams, their hanging branches singing ancient dirges to the wind. — Dan Simmons

My eyes are brown and my hair is brown."
"Your eyes are the color of warm chocolate," he said, tilting his head to study her. "Your hair isn't brown, but auburn with gold and red threads in it like the finest tapestry. — Karen Ranney

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. — Vince Lombardi

Humans without humanity, war_torn world for eternity — Mouloud Benzadi

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin. — Sarah Silverman

Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey. — H.P. Lovecraft