30 wise sayings from authors. These author quotes are so insightful that, some of these can change your way of thinking.

2. William Golding
"What a man does
defiles him, not what
is done by others."

3. Vladimir Nabokov
"Literature and butterflies are the
two sweetest passions known
to man."

4. Stephen King
"If you liked being a
teenager, there's something
really wrong with you."

5. Roald Dahl
"A little nonsense now
and then is relished by
the wisest men."

6. Richard Yates
"Most human beings are
inescapably alone, and
therein lies their
tragedy."

7. Philip Roth
"Just like those who are
incurably ill, the aged know
everything about their dying
except exactly when."

8. Maya Angelou
"I've learned that people will
forget what you said, people will
forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you
made them feel."

9. Paolo Coelho
"You drown not by falling
into a river, but by
staying submerged in it."

10. Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

11. Mark Twain
"Good friends, good
books, and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal
life."

12. Mario Puzo
"Never hate your enemies.
It affects your judgment."

13. Margaret Atwood
"War is what happens when
language fails."

14. Kurt Vonnegut
"If people think nature is
their friend, then they sure
don't need an enemy."

15. Jonathan Franzen
"We may freak out
globally, but we suffer
locally."

16. John Grisham
"You live your life today,
Not tomorrow, and
certainly not yesterday."

17. Jack Kerouac
"Great things are not
accomplished by those who yield
to trends and fads and popular
opinion."

18. J D Salinger
"All morons hate it when
you call them a
moron."

19. Ian McEwan
"No one knows anything,
really. It's all rented, or
borrowed."

20. George Orwell
"Every generation imagines
itself to be more intelligent
than the one that went
before it, and wiser than
the one that comes after it."

21. Erica Jong
"Advice is what we ask
for when we already
know the answer but
wish we didn't."

22. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not true that people
stop pursuing dreams
because they grow old, they
grow old because they stop
pursuing dreams."

23. Ernest Hemingway
"Always do sober what you
said you'd do drunk. That
will teach you to keep your
mouth shut."

24. Donna Tartt
"I think innocence is
something that adults
project upon children that's
not really there."

25. Chuck Palahniuk
"If you love something
set it free, but don't be
surprised if it comes
back with herpes."

26. Charles Dickens
"Have a heart that never
hardens, and a temper that
never tires, and a touch that
never hurts."

27. Daphne Du Maurier
"Women want love to
be a novel, men a
short story."

28. Bret Easton Ellis
"Life is like a typographical
error: we're constantly
writing and rewriting things
over each other."

29. Anthony Burgess
"One of the delights known
to age, and beyond the grasp
of youth, is that of Not
Going."

30. Anne Rice
"Evil is always possible.
Goodness is a
difficulty."

31. Aldous Huxley
"An intellectual is a person
who's found one thing that's
more interesting than sex."

32. Thank You
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