Class clown Quote by Pat Conroy

“If you had such a secret, I And all my fiendish flock, my incubi, Succubi, imps and cacodemons, would have leapt Out of our…

— Christopher Fry

“It should be obvious to someone of your intelligence, Grand Patriarch.” Lavinia’s fine brows arch. “History is written by the victors. And victors can…

— Adam Burch

“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior women, child…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on…

— Victor Hugo

“Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some…

— Katherine Mansfield

“If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest…

— E. Hoffman Price

“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of…

— Henry David Thoreau