Life Quote by Marcus Sakey

“I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.”

— Pat Conroy

“I might not have ever had the courage to write those stories without that experience, that training ground in how to look at one’s…

— Dorothy Allison

“The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that place with…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the…

— Brandy Purdy

“Anecdotes are not the same as experience, but they often inspire. And inspiration is the blood of human existence. Without it we are empty.”

— Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

“...he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person…

— Justin Cronin

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“He said I was learning to talk about my life more objectively so that it felt like a part of my life and not…

— Heather Sellers

“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was…

— Steven Decker