“Stilletos of a frozen stillicide [...] In the lovely line heading this comment the reader should note the last word. My dictionary… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“During any prolonged activity one tends to forget original intentions. But I believe that, when making a start on A Month in… — J.L. Carr Copy Share Image
“I The moving sun-shapes on the spray, The sparkles where the brook was flowing, Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May, These were the… — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
“West Country novelist Thomas Hardy almost did not survive his birth in 1840 because everyone thought he was stillborn. He did not… — Phil Mason Copy Share Image
“The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy, 1840 - 1928 (Lines on the loss of the “Titanic”) I In a solitude of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“When I mentioned to a friend I was writing a book about eggs he told me to be sure to mention how… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
“We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, ‘I know not which I am!’… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star'… — Roger Leslie Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“If 'dead' matter has reared up this curious landscape of fiddling crickets, song sparrows, and wondering men, it must be plain even… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice. — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“The truth about any artist, however terrible, is better than the silence.... I know many writers fight fanatically to keep their published… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Last Victorian and Edwardian Britain saw a mega-change in reading habits. For the first time fiction took the primary place in book… — Iain H. Murray Copy Share Image
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
