Quote To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people. Robert W. Service
Quote It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy
Quote If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
Quote There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isnt there. Thomas Hardy
Quote I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. Ernest Hemingway
Quote The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. John Steinbeck