Fuji Mountain Quotes

#1. It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Lawrence Durrell

#2. It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#3. The Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

Cory Doctorow

#4. Think of suffering as being washed.

Hafez

#5. Two busts guard the secret door in the Poets Corner - the most famous of the modern mage poets, Carroll and Seuss.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked.
"No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!"
"I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats."
"They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been stepped on and flattened to a big fluffy pancake cat," Alessandro argued.

Lynsay Sands

#7. He decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.

J.M. Barrie

#8. And that was true too, that was what the Culverts were like: crucified by their shyness and at the same time contemptuous of the world of ordinary people they couldn't talk to.

Tessa Hadley

#9. Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Tama Janowitz

#10. If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.

Krishna Das

#11. Through it all, Isabelle watched Simon,
something unexpected in her gaze. Something almost like . . . pride.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.

Marcus Aurelius