Alice > Alice's Quotes

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed.”
― Magda Szabó , The Door

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
― Maya Angelou