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Judith Rossner: He always said...

Judith Rossner: He always said...

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...

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Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...

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Louisa May Alcott: Have regular hours...

Louisa May Alcott: Have regular hours...

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Suicidal glory is...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Suicidal glory is...

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to...

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Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

Source: In Words...

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Toni Cade Bambara: The story is...

Toni Cade Bambara: The story is...

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

Source: The Writer on Her...

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M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power...

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Lillian Carter: I know folks...

Lillian Carter: I know folks...

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or...

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George Eliot: For what we...

George Eliot: For what we...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a willing movement of...

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Annie Dillard: The life of...

Annie Dillard: The life of...

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less;...

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June Singer: And so Multi-media...

June Singer: And so Multi-media...

And so Multi-media Man, the contemporary successor to Renaissance Man . . .

Source:...

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Ruth Benedict: In a world...

Ruth Benedict: In a world...

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...

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Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with...

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Judy Garland: We cast away...

Judy Garland: We cast away...

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by...

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Lucille Ball: I think knowing...

Lucille Ball: I think knowing...

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good...

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Joan Baez: It seems to...

Joan Baez: It seems to...

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words...

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Nina Simone: Music is a...

Nina Simone: Music is a...

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

Source:...

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Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Source: Letter, 187?; in...

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Emily Dickinson: What fortitude the...

Emily Dickinson: What fortitude the...

What fortitude the Soul contains,
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming Foot--
The opening of a...

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