Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“In the ancient Book of History, upon which Confucius himself based his philosophy, it is said... The people must be cherished, The… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“How can school help you with the land?" he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. "Learning… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
