Whole life Quote by Walter Scott

“He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of…

— George Orwell

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“He gazed intently at a sheet of paper, breath suspended, a word on the quivering point of his pen poised and waiting to fall.…

— Patricia McKillip

“... we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was…

— Charles Dickens

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later…

— Lord Dunsany

“These were virtuoso odours, executed as wonderful little trifles that of course no one but he could admire or would ever take note of.…

— Patrick Süskind

“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of the author,…

— Victor Hugo