Quotes About Author

Here he went through the not very difficult process of winking upon the company with his solitary eye...

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

"Mr. Harte, what books shall I read to acquire a perfect style?" "Oh, lord!" he groaned, swinging around in his chair, "for pity's sake, don't read anything! Just write! Write! Write!"

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls.

I must confess I did not always relish his misquotations, which sometimes made absolute nonsense of the passages; but what author stands upon trifles when he is praised?

Her handwriting was sweeping, immaculate, breathless.

And 't is a strange truth that only in the agony of parting we look into the depths of love.

Internet meme, c. 2014

A gathering of covidiots is known as a covfefe.

9-1-1, what is your emergency? Hello, there are eleven people hanging out together and one of them has the sniffles.

I am a homebody, but dang! — I did like going one or two places.

Time is painted with wings, and is bald behinde; should we not fear, and catch Time by the forelock?

Biographical Sketch, In Fugitive Crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

R. E. MORSE A veteran General who commands the largest army in the world.

[T]hat embrace was a foretaste of heaven.

I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

the admitted first-cause 'of all-time, of all-history