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Frank Tyger: The art of...

Frank Tyger: The art of...

The art of giving advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself.

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Yves Saint Laurent: Over the years...

Yves Saint Laurent: Over the years...

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing...

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Mary Quant: The fashionable woman...

Mary Quant: The fashionable woman...

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Source: In The...

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Ansel Adams: Sometimes I do...

Ansel Adams: Sometimes I do...

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

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Eugene Delacroix: The source of...

Eugene Delacroix: The source of...

The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or...

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Eugene Delacroix: Experience has two...

Eugene Delacroix: Experience has two...

Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal; the second that we must not...

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Emile Zola: I am little...

Emile Zola: I am little...

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life,...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for...

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Milan Kundera: A novel that...

Milan Kundera: A novel that...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only...

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Margaret Atwood: If the national...

Margaret Atwood: If the national...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid...

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Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of...

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Fay Weldon: The desire for...

Fay Weldon: The desire for...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting...

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John Galsworthy: A man of...

John Galsworthy: A man of...

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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Mary Renault: How can people...

Mary Renault: How can people...

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Source: The King Must...

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Anatole France: A good critic...

Anatole France: A good critic...

A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.

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Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

She felt in italics and thought in capitals.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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William McFee: A man must...

William McFee: A man must...

A man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting...

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Ishmael Reed: Regardless of the...

Ishmael Reed: Regardless of the...

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a...

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Robert Stone: I write a...

Robert Stone: I write a...

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first...

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