Air Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

“Battles (as soldiers know, and newspaper editors do not) are usually fought, not as they ought to be fought, but as they can be…

— Charles Kingsley

“I have always been of the opinion, that the allied armies had been permitted to escape too easily in 1860. Only a united effort…

— Empress Dowager Cixi

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to…

— Paul Harris

If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map.” - Kirkus Reviews”

— Milena Banks

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham.”

— Gloria Steinem

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

— Ernest Hemingway

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by…

— Anonymous

“The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is…

— George Orwell

“Battles have been won or lost for centuries without winning or losing what they were ostensibly fought for.”

— priscilla Smith Robertson