“Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books… — James Spader Copy Share Image
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
“Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen 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
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be… — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“Its (the Left’s) intensity derives from the fact that it’s a family largely composed of, in a manner of speaking, orphans of… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it... — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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