Dr-grordbort Quote by Adam Savage

“Father Pierre, why did you stay on in this colonial Campari-land, where the clink of glasses mingles with the murmur of a million mosquitoes,…

— Monty Python's Flying Circus

“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the…

— Liam W. Russell

“Infinite Jest specifically: an endlessly, compulsively entertaining book that stingily withholds from readers the core pleasures of mainstream novelistic entertainment, among them a graspable…

— David Foster Wallace

“Certain parts of your life, Dan, are directed by an almost desperate passion. Playwrights call it ends-of-the-earth type stuff. And it's good stuff.”

— David J. Kirk

“I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in sports or…

— Trisha Haddad

“I tried to imagine myself as an old lady, grey and wrinkled, with my life behind me. And suddenly I knew what I wanted.…

— Helen Douglas

“He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his…

— John Gardner

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling…

— Diane Setterfield

“It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the…

— Timothy Ferriss