Quotes by Writers

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths. Haruki Murakami

Together Lie People Our Write Bottom Souls Go Hearts Stories Depths Deep Novel Deepest Level Bring

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. Haruki Murakami

War Me Memory Generation Father Kid Kind Know Lot Wanted Stories Happened Then Meant Inheritance Many Fought Belongs

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. Henry Drummond

Achievement Man World Worth Become Before Ambition Every Vain Caring Folly Only The Only Thing Which Lower Whole Thing

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. Henry James

Time Right Time Still Any Lucky Right Chance

Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry James

Experience Never Deep Peaceful

I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily. Isabel Allende

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. Jane Austen

Mend Month Sure Going Next Things

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like. Jane Austen

Me Nothing Like Doing Ever

I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things. Janet Mock

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room. Jim Harrison

Good Food You Waiting People Pet Laughter Restaurant Fine Inside Chatter Like Joyful Go Sitting Biggest Room Should Good Food

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it. John Grisham

Writing Worth Job Difficult Worth It Had Most Still Ever Difficult Job

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. John Harrigan

People Most Least Loving Deserve Need

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. John Ruskin

Great Architect Only He Builder Person Sculptor Who Painter

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift

Success Happy Miserable Power Only Merit Prudence Fortune

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. Jose Rizal

Confidence People Masks Longer Protector Fallen Former Now

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison

Clouds Mind Kind Steady Mirth Through Lightning Daylight Like Cheerfulness Gloom Perpetual Up Flash Breaks Moment Serenity Fills Keeps

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison

Best Health Mind Promoter Cheerfulness Friendly Body

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. Joseph Joubert

Future Respect Safety Wish Past Must Mistrust Provide Present

Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert

Soul Imagination Eye

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. Karel Capek

Government You World First Revolution Universe Destroy Except Come Like Were End Office Offices Wherever Then Even