Confidence Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who…

— Vladimir Putin

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”

— Robert Harris

“It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather…

— Richard W. Kelly

“Forget the buildings and the monuments. Let the softness of dark come in, all those light-years between stars and planets. Cities were the works…

— Lydia Millet

“Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and a dirty…

— Marcelo Figueras

“As usual, Junko thought about Jack London's 'To Build a Fire.' It was the story of a man traveling alone through the snowy Alaskan…

— Haruki Murakami

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from…

— Debbie Macomber

Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot…

— Nick Offerman

“You entered, Abrupt like “Take it!”, Mauling suede gloves, you tarried, And said: “You know,- I’m soon getting married.” Get married then. It’s all…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson…

— John Cooper Clarke

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey