Begging Quote by Kiran Desai

“Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.”

— Thomas H. Green

“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious…

— Samuel Beckett

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”

— Tim Winton

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“I knew a very wise man . . . that . . . believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads…

— Andrew Fletcher

“It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for…

— Jack London

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Once upon a time, there was a King who walked astride his world - here, there and everywhere. He became poor in order to…

— David Mains

“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later…

— Lord Dunsany

“Even were the time to come when there would be neither poor nor rich, yet there will always be wise and stupid, sly and…

— Mika Waltari

“The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky; They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, hearing the heavy purple…

— G.K. Chesterton

“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that it would…

— Upton Sinclair