Category: writer
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Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.
John Steinbeck
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James Baldwin
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Alan Watts
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust
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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot