Quotes About Author

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.

My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.