Quote by Neal Stephenson

“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time…

— Adam-Troy Castro

“Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.”

— Phil Cousineau

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great…

— Theodore Dreiser

“There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.”

— Zadie Smith

“Don't fret when the path is lonely or treacherous. Look up.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

“Have you a point in this mission, other than to piss me off and insult me? In which case, mission accomplished, but your life…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“THE BEST word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They are the ones who could climb the highest.”

— Markus Zusak

“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.”

— Shabbeer Ahmed

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“They were all lawyers, all schooled in the authority of words, though as their words turned to dust a pall of impotence and futility…

— Ben Fountain

“Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow, We write, write, write, Without respite Or hope of praise in the future or now.”

— Anton Chekhov

“It seemed the two held forth on parallel tracks, confident of meeting somewhere in infinity.”

— Denis Johnson