East and west Quote by Andrew Lam

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought…

— Wendell Berry

“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“This is what he was good at, he realized. This is what he did. He placed himself in the world, and the world drew…

— Bruce Brooks

“The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that place with…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if…

— Dan Simmons

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono

“You could say that he split his day in half on order to travel between east and west. Some say that it shows how…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“He thought he was walking along a dusty road that showed white in the gathering darkness of a summer night. Whence and whither it…

— Ambrose Bierce