“Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.” PeopleKnowsMayIdeasOpportunityJudgingWasteNo IdeaNew Friends Author:John Avery
“If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.” IfsEasyFindingsFree TimeFinding True Love Author:John Avery
“I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.” ThinkingLimitationDostoyevsky Author:Francoise Sagan
“That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'” CharacterDreamNovelists Author:Jose Saramago
“I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.” ThinkingLevelsMinutesArcs Author:Nathalie Sarraute
“[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .” MomentsAgeOld AgeInnocenceChildlikeChildishnessSenility Book:Conversations with May Sarton Source: Conversations with May Sarton
“In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.” ExpressionGoes OnAncientFinishedGreeceAncient GreeceExpired Author:Budd Schulberg
“I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.” WritingWould BeLeftDifficultOne Thing Author:Frederick Seidel
“[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.” InspirationFiction Author:Mary Lee Settle
“I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!” ThinkingWritingBlackWhiteVictimMask Author:Anne Sexton