History-of-thought Quote by Margaret Atwood

“It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.”

— Elizabeth Bishop

“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The room was rococo. I had a strong sense of gilt.”

— Eric Idle

“I wondered how anyone could have been so sure about a concept so tenuous and impossible as always that they'd be willing to carve…

— Morgan Matson

“I was going to get smart, and I was going to change the world. I was audacious enough to believe it, too. Fortunately it…

— Jamie Sedgwick

“It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.”

— Kady Cross

“It had all been a motherfucking nightmare and the solution was so simple, right there and under their noses. It had just been hidden:…

— Aleksandr Voinov

“...she was brilliant and that only brilliant people worried about not being brilliant any longer.”

— Maya Banks

“The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible.”

— Gregory Maguire

“She was an original ... She was an eccentric. She'd come alive like a fire, telling funny stories and entertaining everyone, then she'd suddenly…

— Santa Montefiore

“felt great, free, abandoned, a different, improved, perfected specimen of a different, improved, perfected species. It was wild! It was beautiful! It really was.”

— Beatrice Sparks