Author Quote by Ian McEwan

“Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.”

— Melissa Kantor

“For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others,…

— Daniel Wallace

“He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the…

— Howard Thurman

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.”

— Laurence Sterne

“As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that I didn't…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“He would understand, later, that there is a moment when your life must become your own; you must claim it from all the other…

— Anne Michaels

“Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..”

— Viktor Frankl

“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty…

— Wallace Stegner

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”

— Laurence Sterne

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust