Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

Isaac Asimov

 

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny..." 

Roald Dahl

"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it."

Graham Greene

 “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition.”

 Graham Greene 

Graham Greene's The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen was first published in The Saturday Evening Post, November 20th 1965

Kazuo Ishiguro

Saki (H.H. Munro)

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”

 

Saki