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Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith ... — Rafael Sabatini

The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences. — Mark Dunn

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. — Rafael Sabatini

They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness. — Orna Ross

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. — Thomas Carlyle

I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all. — Julian Barnes

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. — Anthony Burgess

The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them. — Hanley Ramirez

She continued her study of the lines and colors embedded in my skin. — S.L. Jennings

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking. — Leslie Stephen

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig

To be a great success, you must do two things without fear: love and share. — Debasish Mridha

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold. — Nina Jacobson

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school. — Scott Turow

The great break of my literary career was going to law school. — Scott Turow

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice

I think I'm a big romantic. — Alicia Vikander

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. — John Grisham

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. — Truman Capote

Life is a canvas, use more color. — J.R. Mattison

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne — Orna Ross

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead. — Megan McCafferty

To be a great writer you must be fearless with your words. — Karmel Graham

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine

A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician. — Orna Ross

So these Red Sox ... are they a Communist organization? — Fidel Castro

And the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. — Henry James

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important — Seth Godin

I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition ... . — F Scott Fitzgerald