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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Every good journalist has a novel in him - which is an excellent place for it.
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think the university stifles writers...
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
From the moment I picked your book up...
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil...
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
He who opens a door, closes a prison
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library
I like a thin book because it will steady a table...
I write to add to the beauty that now belongs to me
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
From the author of The Yellow Bird Sings, a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.
The God of Endings
by Jacqueline Holland
A suspenseful debut that weaves a story of love, history and myth through the eyes of one immortal woman.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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