Music Quote by Tom Bissell

“Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the…

— George Eliot

“Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that we are…

— Abiola Abrams

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“He was holding the image of his own people up: sometimes it was weight enough to stagger under.”

— Colum McCann

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that…

— Washington Irving

“Oddfittingness emanated from his every pore; it enveloped him like a cloud; it hung on him and exceeded him as if it were a…

— Tiffany Tsao

“He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers…

— Margery Williams

“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“In a gathering, a writer's eyes act as an intrepid explorers. When alone, he murmurs to himself posing as his characters. When invited to…

— Gaurav Sharma

“It is sad, is it not, that no one today displays an interest in the art of shrunken heads. Men, women, and children walk…

— Mary Ruefle