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

My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the…

— Pete Hamill

“Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we…

— Anne Lamott

“[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions.”

— The New York Times

“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on many young…

— Albert Camus

“...the human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Other men, with no more advantages than he, succeeded, and others again, with many more, failed. It seemed pure chance. The rain fell alike…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Life's uncontrollable, unpredictable, and a hell of a mess. Without fear, loss, and the wrong choice we made, we wouldn't be who we were.…

— J.C. Reed

“They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an…

— John Eldredge

“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women…

— Anne Lamott

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and…

— Hunter S. Thompson