Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“How did he get his ideas? “I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge…

— Walter Isaacson

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“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

“He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.”

— Ian Rankin Doors Open

“All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each…

— Lois Lowry

“He figured that all the threads of his experience would eventually be sewn together, taking shape in harmony and form to create a glorious…

— Adriana Trigiani

“These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up…

— T.C. Boyle

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or…

— Oscar Wilde

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that there was…

— Paolo Giordano