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Haruki Murakami quote: "I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world."
I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world. Haruki Murakami
Jacques Barzun quote: "The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form."
The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form. Jacques Barzun
He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human. Nora Roberts
One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks. Edward Abbey
If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up. Ian Mcewan
Yasunari Kawabata quote: "Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a..."
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... Yasunari Kawabata
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. Ray Bradbury
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. Brenda Ueland
Jodi Picoult quote: "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like..."
When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. Jodi Picoult
Steven Wright quote: "A metaphor is like a simile."
A metaphor is like a simile. Steven Wright
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving. Steven Wright
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune..."
I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune pinup. Laurell K. Hamilton
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we... Anais Nin
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. Frederick Buechner
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he... Paulo Coelho

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