Quote by Paula McLain

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. ”

— Haruki Murakami

“Let me let you in on a little secret, a profound truth passed down from the drunken poets and the great gamblers who built…

— Lokesh Tuli

“I wanted to wrap that moment up in tissue paper and save it forever someplace near my heart, just so I could take it…

— Christine Zolendz

“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.”

— Roman Payne

“Let me write not for fame and laurel, but from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful even if my night's…

— John Keats

“Well, my friends give me purple flowers and orange tea and goosedown spinning quilts and torquoise chairs we greet one another in a wild…

— Dar Williams

“What an exquisite life you have had! You have drunk deeply of everything. You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been…

— Oscar Wilde

“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth.…

— Victor Hugo

“Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.”

— Jennifer Webb

“At times young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded. (...) Miss Bloom, would you fetch my…

— Ransom Riggs

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I didn’t know whether it was the wine or the night air that held its sway over me, but I felt alive. I looked…

— Jessica Marie Gilliland