Colm Toibin
Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.
- Colm TóibÃn
- Colm TóibÃn
John Cheever
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
- John Cheever
- John Cheever
John Steinbeck
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
Bram Stoker
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
- Bram Stoker
- Bram Stoker
Tennessee Williams
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
- Tennessee Williams
- Tennessee Williams
Jonathan Ames
I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
- Jonathan Ames
- Jonathan Ames
Nurturing Creativity – Keekli Charitable Trust, Shimla
