What really knocks me out is a book that, when you are all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it.
J.D. Salinger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France
If I could always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Brontë
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB
So why go out on a question mark when you can go out as an exclamation point instead?
From Devil’s in Exile by Chuck Hogan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hogan
You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards.
James Thurber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thurber
Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
Thomas Edison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
“O who am I? Reflections only in the eyes of those who love me.”
Patricia Highsmith
(from her notebook in 1951)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
W.M. Thackeray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray
