So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Alan Bennett

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Langston Hughes

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann von Goethe

It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker.

Casper Van Dien

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

William Styron

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson, attributed

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

I hate Brooklyn

Cassandra Clare

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Lauryn Hill

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Mason Cooley

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

Claudia Gray

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Mike Farrell