"even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished."

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”

“Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?”

Source : "I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It." by Colson Whitehead, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2008.

“The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.”

“It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.”

“You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.”

Source : "Sports Commentators". Interview with David Winner, www.askmen.com. September 5, 2011.

“Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!”

“Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.140, Ballantine Books

“Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.”

Source : Hallie Southgate Burnett, Whit Burnett (1979). “Fiction Writer's Handbook”, HarperCollins Publishers