Literary Quotes

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a ...

It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunders...

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

What did I think? Right then I was thinking about my father, specifically his habit of treating ever...

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, abou...

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned ...

Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles...

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. Bu...

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story ful...

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and ...

I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...

The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular id...

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.

Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was think...