"But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog."

-- Richard Matheson

#Beautiful Quotes #Dog Quotes #Strong Quotes

“You need a lot of energy to get a novel finished. You need an ability to ignore everyone around you. It's why I don't read my reviews any more. I know a lot of people say that, but I really don't read them.”
“In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.”

Source : "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.
“For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.”
“The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.”

Source : Lactantius, Anthony Bowen, Peter Garnsey (2003). “Divine Institutes”, p.358, Liverpool University Press
“Hypotheses are what we lack the least.”
“Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who donâ€™t have one at all.”
“As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.”

You may also like:

Frederik Pohl
Writer
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Robert Bloch
Writer
Rod Serling
Screenwriter
Roger Corman
Film Producer
Shirley Jackson
Author
Stephen King
Author
Vincent Price
Actor
Charles Beaumont
Author