A man’s heart was the tablet of God, who wrote upon it what He willed.
– Elizabeth Goudge The Dean’s Watch
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Quotes From a Wide Range of Authors & Books
…in literature you commemorate people’s experience, their living, and their pain; you celebrate their humanity.
– Elia Kazan The Arrangement
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love and Other Demons
…fiction can be an epistle to the living, but more often the things we write, believing they matter, are letters to the dead.
– Paul Theroux Hotel Honolulu
For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities – the eternal past, the eternal future.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
God does not want man to be too calm, so He gives him unrest to discipline him, or rather He makes him give it to himself…
– Thomas Mann The Holy Sinner
Great publishers were not always great readers, and good readers seldom make good publishers…
– James Salter All That Is
He was a writer. A writer. They have time to get into trouble.
– Michael Ondaatje Anil’s Ghost
