Affair Quote by Woodrow Wilson

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And…

— Aldous Huxley

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of…

— Tracy Kidder

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature…

— Samuel Johnson

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature.…

— William Hazlitt

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be…

— Iris Origo

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and…

— Joseph Campbell