Books Quote by Thomas Christopher Greene

“His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon one whose…

— Mervyn Peake

“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul,…

— George Bernard Shaw

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“She wanted to say something smart and kind, put together some combination of words to reach him where he'd reached her with his. But…

— J.R. Ward

“He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and…

— Libba Bray

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she had never…

— David Grossman

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

“But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game…

— Jamie Weise