Humor Quote by Kevin Hearne

“[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.”

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

“[I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.”

— John Connolly

“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances…

— Tom Holland

“I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing from me…

— Charlotte Brontë

“(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.”

— Jincy Willett

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren

“[T]he thought was meaningless, an attempt to quantify direct experience.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“[T]he worst kind of nihilist—the kind who isn't even aware he's a nihilist.”

— David Foster Wallace

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams