Information is the backbone of any work
Wealth is not everyone's goal
Never give up your care
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he's capable of. Novelists...
If you had to choose between sanity, your life as you remember, rather than true instability, what would you choose as an appropriate way to live from a scholar?
I don't want to think, feel, or move. Everything is torn apart and dying, so it occurred to me as a hope that I would find an organic reason for this.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze,...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
He was determined to live forever or die trying, and for him the only purpose of the deployment was...
Steal Captain Black's car, said Yossarian. That's what I always do. We can't steal anybody's car....