Circumstances Quote by Clara Schumann

“Writing is like knowing the beauty you possess inward; the possibilities are endless.”

— Annette Whitaker-Moss

“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some…

— Katherine Mansfield

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster

“It's not the letter she imagined she would write, but once you start, all the other letters you've ever written in your life have…

— Susan Elderkin

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“I am a being compromised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding…

— Virginia Woolf

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for…

— Annie Dillard

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never…

— Julian Barnes

“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others…

— John Green

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and…

— Salman Rushdie