Acceptance Quote by Ralph Ellison

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because…

— Philip Gerard

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

— Susan Sontag

“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.' They would…

— Ravi Zacharias

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us…

— Karl Mannheim

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

— Plautus

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact…

— Sy Montgomery

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting…

— Mel Brooks