top of page
.png){kind=small}
"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."
Standard
Customized
More
"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A friend is a favourable family."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
Peace
"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
Life
"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."
Reading
"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."
Friendship
"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."
Love
"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."
History
"Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."
Aphorisms
"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."
Art
"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."
Beginning
"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form."
Art
bottom of page