The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Neville Marriner

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Joseph Addison

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi

George Orwell

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Adriana Lima

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Orson Scott Card

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

John Barrymore

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Alva Edison