Business Quote by W. A. Oldfather

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures,…

— Julianne MacLean

“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

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

“The Book of the Order lay open on his desk, the pages curling up from a spine stitched to last.”

— Hugh Howey

“Despite his mellow, Zen-like demeanor, the appearance of that bookcase betrayed an urgency. A hunger. This thing meant something to him. Of course I…

— Amanda Gefter

“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more, and as…

— W.G. Sebald

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up…

— T.C. Boyle

“His five feet three rested angular on the folding chair, a body small, well-wrought and somehow precious, as if it were the forgotten creation…

— Thomas Pynchon

“He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day’s work had hardly involved more than…

— Henning Mankell

“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact…

— Robert Musil