Jealousy Quote by Paul Bourget

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose…

— Steve Maraboli

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.”

— Michael S. Harper

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head…

— Fernando Pessoa

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“When on the eve of glory, whilst brooding over the prospects of a bright and happy future, whilst meditating upon the risky right of…

— Amanda McKittrick Ros

“Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes…

— Samuel Johnson