Quote by George Orwell

“like he could devote his thoughts to something other than when he might get to sleep. Like his mind was huge and whirring and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg

“He had enough troubles, he thought, without inventing new ones for the future. He was middling lost, starving, and with an excellent chance of…

— George Alec Effinger

“His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.”

— Dave Eggers

“He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities…

— Victor Hugo

“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“He was never rash or hurried, but he was always read. It was the secret, no doubt, of the extraordinary political career he threw…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He assumed that there must be a connection between all that had happened yesterday and all that surrounded him now. At last, in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He remembered his mind feeling as cold as ice and limitless as the night sky.”

— Terry Pratchett

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham