But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Philip Guedalla

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Stephen King

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

Sherman Austin

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

William S. Burroughs

Semua perjalanan hidup adalah sinema. Bahkan lebih mengerikan. Darah adalah darah, dan tangis adalah tangis. Tak ada pemeran pengganti yang akan menanggung sakitmu.

Dee

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

George Carlin

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

Arthur Miller

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Oscar Wilde

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

White, E.B.