Book Quote by Dan Simmons

“It showed him how people continued to endure, even in the hardest circumstances imaginable, when everything else had been taken away. The world either…

— Bella Forrest

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and…

— Malcolm Lowry

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a…

— William Thomas Green Morton

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation…

— Malcolm Lowry