Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through…

— Grace Paley

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”

— William Golding

“He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been…

— Stephen Crane

“He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.”

— James Jones

“Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully—in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland had…

— J.R. Ward

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.”

— Winston Churchill

“Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says,…

— Philip Roth

“Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting…

— Roderic Jeffries

“He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a…

— Ben Fountain

“being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he…

— Paulo Coelho