Association Quote by Charles Dickens

“Woful was the proof that man, if unrestrained, if left to his own devices, is not merely incapable of recovering his innocence, but will…

— G.H. Pember

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a…

— Stephen Fry

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

— Faraaz Kazi

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf

“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write.…

— Eudora Welty

“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom, were not…

— Virginia Woolf

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always,…

— Etgar Keret

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“That people were manifold creatures didn't come as a surprise to the Swede, even if it was a bit of a shock to realize…

— Philip Roth

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit,…

— Robertson Davies