Writer Quote by David Foster Wallace

“[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.”

— Andrew Dickson White

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and…

— Ricky Jay

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something…

— Ato Essandoh

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a…

— Philipp Meyer

“If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might have been…

— Jane Mayer

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the…

— Hu Shih

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs