Literary Quotes

Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else?

Can you imagine how many people got laid in here?" Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi.

I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow.

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me

Besides, love is only a feeling.

No one is sent by accident to anyone.

Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!

Literature has become merely a tool for culture studies.

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

I can't bear literary snobbery.

I live within the world of books.

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you, " he said. And erased him from his heart.

The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once upon a time I thought to dream of medicine. Now I dream of medicine by the sea.

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!

In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.

I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.

Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.~Piper - 'Breathe Me

Sometimes sanity just means the ability to recognize the end of the road when you reach it.

Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.

Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.

Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust.

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your self. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.

One bright sunny day at a successful Literary Agency…Literary Agent: “So, Tina – we asked you to try and write a children’s story…”Tina: “Uh-huh.

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, Such questions can turn me to ashes.

Underneath the groundyou can't hear a soundnot even the sweet falling rainyou might forget about tomorrowforget about the swallowsbut they won't forget youthey won't forget you

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.

When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

Where do you prefer to sit, Sir?" (Lady Alexandra to William, the Duke, during her mail-order bride interview.)

A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. "I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.

Despite their macabre imaginations, they don't believe the things they say, all those things about magic and fantômes. But I do. I know he lingers. I've heard his voice, soft as a lover's whisper.

Law should be a literary profession, ' RGB says, 'and the best legal practioners regard law as an art as well as a craft.

Literary Agent: “I meant manuscript wise.”Tina: “Ohh. Um, yes. I’ve brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.

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

I was an unwilling passenger leaving the Big Country. I would miss the mountains and the waterfalls, the treks on broad horses' backs to hidden villages in secret valleys.