Quote by Philip M. Rosenzweig

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“In comparison with all this, our little stories of achievement seem pitiful; Too well we know what bitterness of failure, loss, disillusionment, and ironic…

— Joseph Campbell

“The stories of those we admire is generally about the goals they have attained, obstacles overcome and legacies left behind.”

— Hussein A. Al-Banawi

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“If you want your story to be a story of victory, trust in God even when the path becomes stormy.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose…

— Caleb Carr

“A great man will experience more failures than successes. If we lived for the successes, we would have all killed ourselves by now.”

— Andrew Sturm

“The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ”

— David Alejandro Fearnhead