Acres Quote by Tom Robbins

“Having a good heart but no action is as meaningful as a bountiful orchard full of rotting apples.”

— Brett Biaggio

“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion…

— John Steinbeck

He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

— Charles Finch

“I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, "I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no…

— Cecil B. DeMille

“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.”

— Saul Bellow

“Henry David Thoreau is my favorite writer of all time, my literary god king, and his essay Wild Apples is my favorite thing to…

— Nicholas Trandahl

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

— William Safire

“For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca…

— Rae Hachton

“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps,…

— Anna Kavan

I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at…

— Lucas Neff

“He adored talking about the rich…. But his real wealth was literary. He had read many thousands of books. He said that history was…

— Peter Watson

“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it…

— Gabrielle Zevin