"Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."
John Hersey
"A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen."
Nikita Dudani
"The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it."
Jill Lepore
"Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat.'I grinned. 'I've noticed.'Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. 'It's an equestrian term.'Really? I thought you were talking about his ass."
Cate Tiernan
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Douglas Adams
"People don't have ideas, ideas have people."
Paul B. Rainey
"For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception."
Bernard Katz
"Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it."
Allen Tate
"A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn."
Eli Pariser
"She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess."
Christopher Moore
"A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger."
Debasish Mridha
"Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?'...'No.'Well, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?"
Heather Brewer
"I'm often wrong but never in doubt."
Ivy Baker Priest
"There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen."
Sun Tzu
"One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library."
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