Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“More thought is demanded but more accomplished if we set them up: “Written boldly into the Bible is this phrase . .… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It is the simplest phrase you can imagine,” Favreau said, “three monosyllabic words that people say to each other every day.” But… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths...," I began.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“My indiscretion was a part of my author mystique, just like Charles Dickens and Richard Madeley.” — Rosen Trevithick Copy Share Image
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”––Charles Dickens” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“it has been observed that Londoners became more extravagant in the presence of Charles Dickens, so that they might appear more Dickensian,… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Charles Dickens once said that “Home” is simply a name, a word, but it’s a strong one; stronger than any magician ever… — Loreth Anne White Copy Share Image
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
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