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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time." - Barbara W. Tuchman
"We are all potentially characters in a novel - with the difference that characters in a novel really get to their lives to the full." - Georges Simenon
"This...is the inherent defect of novels: they go off at the end." - E. M. Forster
"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live." - Francoise Sagan
"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." - John Maynard Keynes
"I learned ... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness." - Brenda Ueland
"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. " - Maya Angelou
"I write. The longer I live, the more convinced I become that I cultivate my truest self in this one way. I pay more attention when I'm writing, and I hear myself more clearly when I'm writing ... If I'm not doing it now, I should be." - Tom Chiarella
This page last updated on 19 June 2001