Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where t...
V. E. SCHWAB I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley an...
V. E. SCHWAB I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remem...
V. E. SCHWAB I like to play with tropes.
V. E. SCHWAB I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging fro...
V. E. SCHWAB I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, ...
V. E. SCHWAB As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enou...
V. E. SCHWAB I'm pagan.
V. E. SCHWAB It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out ma...
V. E. SCHWAB It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
V. E. SCHWAB I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. I...
V. E. SCHWAB I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I hav...
V. E. SCHWAB So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as...
V. E. SCHWAB Nothing is wasted.
E. V. LUCAS Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its language...
E. V. LUCAS The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. LUCAS You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. LUCAS The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. LUCAS You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against ...
E. V. COOKE Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
E. V. COOKE Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fac...
E. V. COOKE I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wa...
E. V. LUCAS Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and ...
V. E. SCHWAB I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions tha...
V. E. SCHWAB Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt fr...
E. V. RIEU The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and ...
E. V. LUCAS Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. LUCAS There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol e...
EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wa...
EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded o...
V. VALE Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the...
CHARLES V I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated...
DANKA V. My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
CHARLES V To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
CHARLES V Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes th...
CHARLES V Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
CHARLES V Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball
CHARLES V I came, I saw, God conquered.
CHARLES V To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven
CHARLES V A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
CHARLES V We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers a...
CHARLES V Jesus fuck. I’m sitting right fucking here, Prez. Maybe shelve the porn a little, yeah?
V. THEIA Hope was a weak rebellion not meant for the likes of him.
V. THEIA He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a p...
V. THEIA His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was...
V. THEIA There was some biblical irony in that somewhere only Mary Magdalene would understand hitting above h...
V. THEIA He felt at peace knowing his little bit of a thing was safe and recovering inside.
V. THEIA Hawk's belly sunk hollow, black and empty, much like his chest that corroded desire into something n...
V. THEIA He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.
V. THEIA Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?
V. THEIA She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her ...
V. THEIA He wasn’t good. He was a goddamn cruel bastard.
V. THEIA His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.
V. THEIA For what it was worth he already knew he resembled a pissed off serial killer most of the time, he w...
V. THEIA He watched with his predator eyes.
The hunger in them unmasked.
He was addicted.
H...
V. THEIA A man once said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting diff...
V. THEIA A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a seri...
KARTHIKEYAN V Divorce is like a death but with intent
KATHIEY V. I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while t...
EUGENE V. DEBS I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was ha...
T. V. CARPIO As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
T. V. CARPIO How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
V. S. NAIPAUL One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. NAIPAUL It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situatio...
V. S. NAIPAUL In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that i...
V. S. NAIPAUL The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishi...
V. S. NAIPAUL The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did...
V. S. NAIPAUL It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral h...
V. S. NAIPAUL It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. NAIPAUL We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thin...
V. S. NAIPAUL Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of...
V. S. NAIPAUL All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the myste...
V. S. NAIPAUL Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to fe...
V. S. NAIPAUL The world is always in movement.
V. S. NAIPAUL In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. NAIPAUL Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V. S. NAIPAUL A cat only has itself.
V. S. NAIPAUL My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. NAIPAUL I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across ...
KING GEORGE V Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that ...
MARK V. HURD In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ANDREW V. MADSON Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage an...
JAMES V. FORRESTAL The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. PRITCHETT Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. PRITCHETT Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides wi...
V. N. VOLOSINOV Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
V. RAYMOND EDMAN Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS