One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application. — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial .… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“The setting sun had turned the blue sky a brilliant orange, then soft pink merging to pearl; the plum velvet of night had come… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“And when the sun sets...then the night magic spreads out above your head; worlds and universes a-borning and a-dying—stars and planets and galaxies. And… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“Drab and colorless as her existence would seem to have been, Mrs. Harris had always felt a craving for beauty and color and which… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“Japanese goldfish, With your gossamer tail, You are the loveliest creature I have ever seen." "Japanese kitten, Put your tongue back in where it… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet. — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
