165 quotes found
“A writer always begins by being too complicatedhes playing at several games at once.”
“How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?”
“The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jek...”
“Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.”
“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
“He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. ”
“From the twilight of day till the twilight of evening, a leopard, in the last years of the thirteenth century, would see some wooden planks, some vertical iron bars, men and women who changed, a wa...”
“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
“I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.”
“Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.”
“Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.”
“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
“I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.”
“We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.”
“And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh ...”
“One of the schools of Tln goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other t...”
“The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.”
“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.”
“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.”
