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Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard...

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A E Housman: That is the...

A E Housman: That is the...

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come...

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Warren E Burger: For better or...

Warren E Burger: For better or...

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors...

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Ayn Rand: There are two...

Ayn Rand: There are two...

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Source: The...

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Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to...

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Max Eastman: The worst enemy...

Max Eastman: The worst enemy...

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face...

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Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the...

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Alvin Toffler: You can use...

Alvin Toffler: You can use...

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and...

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Alvin Toffler: It is better...

Alvin Toffler: It is better...

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Source: In The...

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Alvin Toffler: Man has a...

Alvin Toffler: Man has a...

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future...

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Osbert Sitwell: Poetry is like...

Osbert Sitwell: Poetry is like...

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the...

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Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one...

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Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own...

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Eudora Welty: What I do...

Eudora Welty: What I do...

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...

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Elias Canetti: The process of...

Elias Canetti: The process of...

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single...

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Elias Canetti: Success is the...

Elias Canetti: Success is the...

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

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Ian Fleming: I shall not...

Ian Fleming: I shall not...

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Source:...

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Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for...

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