Quote by Bill Bryson

“He felt dirty, contaminated, as though he were carrying some deadly germ, unworthy to sit on the underground train back from the hospital with…

— J.K. Rowling

“It took several minutes, but he was meticulous about each letter. IN MEMRY OF THE STRANJER, it said. HE LIVD AND DID.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outwards from a place deep within him, as if…

— Philip Pullman

“The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which…

— Guy de Maupassant

“He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his…

— Howard Fast

“Finally, spurred by the appetite to which he was indifferent, he took any one, read the printing on the parti-colored label of paper. He…

— James Gould Cozzens

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“smeared with grime. His attention was on the rise and fall of the breakers and his uncovered hands were clasped tightly at his back.…

— Claudy Conn

“He lay in darkness, like a sacrifice; he could hear the teeth of his leprosy devouring his flesh. There was a smell of contempt…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“he fell face first into the dirt which was a mixture of mud with a hundred years or more of chicken crap and the…

— Connor Fitzgerald

“He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.”

— Brian Krans

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald