Descriptive-prose Quote by R.D. Ronald

“It was an office of a guy who won’t take spam from anybody.”

— John Zakour

“He delivered the mail, ran our modest recycling program, and maintained our handful of public buildings. He also occasionally fell asleep while driving a…

— Molly Harper

“And that noise! It was enough to make that happy mailman on Mr. Rogers go postal!”

— Christopher Golden

“He was a man of between sixty and seventy. From a little distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist. His slightly bald…

— Agatha Christie

“On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life.…

— Sylvia Plath

“Not bad, not bad. That's one down. Only a million to go.' 'Right. Thanks, Shark.' I should have known to expect something like that…

— Bill Condon

“Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul…”

— E.M. Forster

“Belongs to a guy named Joseph Stiglitz.”

— Marcus Sakey

“he was a roly-poly elderly man with a stoop and a waddle—”

— Dashiell Hammett

“Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person—some stranger—had gone to the…

— Diane Setterfield

“...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation…

— Edith Wharton

“He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He sometimes wore…

— Anthony Powell