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Think about it. When you reach 18 you're no longer an underage drinker. This means that drinking is no longer an act of rebellion, and so there's no point in doing it any more. You've got to find some other way of looking hard in front of your friends, like attaching weights to your testicles and swimming naked through the snapping turtle pond at the zoo
— Andre the BFG, Andre's Adventures in MySpace
What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
— Laura Esquivel, Pierced by the Sun
The rows of empty jugs had multiplied with the speed of caged rabbits.
— Daniel Polansky, The Builders
There was a sound in their voices which suggested rum.
— Robert Louis Sevenson
The Americans called theirs the Officers Club but the Canadians called ours the Officers Mess. The American term was the more honest
—  ours the more accurate. Drunken officers at play are messy.
Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship with Bushmills.
— Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it.
— James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
The more I drink the better I write and the more I write the better I drink.
— Shawn Hatfield
More wine," Lightsong said, raising his cup."You can't get drunk, Your Grace," Llarimar noted. "Your body is immune to all toxins.""I know," Lightsong said as a lesser servant filled his cup. "But trust me—I'm quite good at pretending.
— Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
You're the measure of my true decline. Your home isn't in the underworld, you live in the back room of the liquor store. My eternally hung-over angel, my Satan crawling like an amber worm from a bottle of Zoladkowa Gorzka.
— Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel
To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question.
— Robert  Black
We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, "I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
They swallowed, tasted their tongues, sucked their lips, and there was a far-away look in their eyes. Mack peered into his empty glass as though some holy message were written in the bottom. And then he raised his eyes. “You can’t say nothin’ about that,” he said. “They don’t put that in bottles.
— John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letters the men had received in several weeks, and for a night it relieved the changeless pattern of their lives. One of the infrequent rations of beer was given out the same night, and the men finished their three cans quickly, and sat about without saying very much. The beer had been far too inadequate to make them drunk; it made them only moody and reflective, it opened the gate to all their memories, and left them sad, hungering for things they could not name.
— Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
Ptah held up his mug. “Do you realize, we’ve fought together, starved together, bled together, endured slavery, and looked into the jaws of death...”“But we never drank together!” Marcus finished, clanking his mug to Ptah’s.“Exactly! The drink flows freely, and we must make up for lost time, ha ha ha!
— Jennifer McKeithen, Atlantis On the Shores of Forever
OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay when I'm in better condition. Tell Hinckle he'd better take some liver exercises...and also to get braced for my wild cards, which don't always mix well with grapefruit juice and burbon.- To Peter Collier 10/11/1967
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
That drinking thing, the night before an early morning start, I actually think it helps the productivity in some ways (as long as it's not spirits) it gives you that I don't give a fuck attitude, more relaxed, I'm getting away with it after all, I had a life last night, and now I may be hungover, but I had that secret world that you didn't have, and that you tried to take away from me, want to take away from me. But I still got that beer buzz. And I'll do it again, tomorrow night too. I'll never surrender. And when I'm working, I'll be thinking about it. Those moments of mine, truly mine, that you can never have or take away from me.
— Robert  Black
A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in the head in some strange time warp where the bullet takes many years to finally reach its target.
— Brennan Manning, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.
— Roger Scruton, I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
Inside my soul a treasure is buried.The key is mine and only mine.How right you are, you drunken monster!I know: the truth is in the wine.("The Unknown Lady")
— Alexander Blok, The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology
To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.
— Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome
I made a considerable dent in the bourbon reserves of three bars. Maybe I couldn’t quite walk a straight line after that, but I was still thinking up a storm and getting nowhere. I switched to Calvert’s the way the ads tell you, with no better results. I thought maybe if I got in touch with Doc Kincaid and asked him for a list of people who had answered his questions I’d be able to find out if the killer had broken his code. It seemed like a fine idea, but I wasn’t buying any of that, either. It was the professional way to go about things and it might bring results in a month or two or twenty, but I didn’t have the time. I’d drink myself into an alcoholic ward long before that.But Tad Barrett might like the idea and might be able to do more about it with a whole staff of trained operatives.Jason Chase, you are a genius. You must drink to this brilliant idea. You must. You will. But the barman shook his head.“What do you mean, I’ve had enough?”“I mean, I don’t think you ought to take another. Not here.”“That’s ridiculous, my good sir.
— Stephen Marlowe, Model for Murder
Usually it`s like this: I sit down and drink with the idea of clarifying just where I am going with my life, and then, after a while, I am unable even to stand on my feet
— Plamen Chetelyazov, Flaws of Oblivion
Go & tell your drinking buddies& psychoanalyst your neighborhas risen from the ashes. I wonderif I should tell you about the love lettershidden behind the doorjamb. This housestill stands among my lavender flowers.Tell your inheritors to think of mewhen they smile up at the sky.
— Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch
If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world.
— Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
Taking my drink, I moved around the bar to her. Her smile was a little crooked as I sat down. I guessed it had been a wet night for platinum blondes.
— Michael McCretton, Beauty Can Kill / The River Is Cold
No, I went to the bar to ask for a mojito and that guy Johnny said he didn’t make mojitos. Then he offered to make me a mint julep, in one of those silver cups and everything.” 	“Did you know say the true cause of the Civil War was some Northerner adding nutmeg to a mint julep?” Lucy asked.
— Mary Jane Hathaway, Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread
Reggie, you wrapped your sports car around a telephone pole after drinking a bar." "Yeah... But I was wearing my seatbelt.
— Daniel Younger, Delirious
The best colleague any doctor can have is a more fully informed patient and family.
— James J. Rybacki, The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs, Update on alcohol
Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.
— Norah Hoult, There Were No Windows
I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.
— Rob Thomas, Mr. Kiss and Tell
My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.
— Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading
Well, I've kept you waiting long enough," he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.
— Ray Bradbury, The October Country
I found that old Solomon proved it fair, That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.
— Robert Burns
Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing.
— Vicki Lesage, Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.
— Alan Goodare, Sleeping Partners
Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision,and sets things in true perspective.
— Brian D'Ambrosio, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
We smoked fat cigars by the campfire and they tasted like wood and ash. The inhale and exhale was exciting. Blowing smoke rings in the calm forest air was followed by a deep swallow of cheap beer, and this too was exciting. There was no judgment in the wild, and so indulgences were plentiful. There were no regulators here and we were free to indulge in the deep intoxications that made our minds free.
— Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
— William Shakespeare
Thank god for Vegas. Seriously.A lobotomy wasn’t as effective as a weekend three hours of Red Bull away (from LA, not Pismo) where I wore the thinnest pinned stilettos, gambled like a sweaty degenerate mobster in black loafers, drank like Amy Winehouse and Charles Bukowski’s baby, and snorted throat-dripping lines of coke in a Hard Rock Hotel bathroom with four new best friends. I’d giddily rub off any one of those from the to-do list I wrote in eyeliner on my hotel bathroom mirror.
— Christy Heron, Unrequited - One Girl, Thirteen Boyfriends, and Vodka.
You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.
— Janny Wurts, Warhost of Vastmark
It is not always about what you eat and drink. Rather it can be about what you are not eating and drinking, for which the body is desperately craving!
— Miranda J. Barrett
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife
— Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's?
— Jaye Wells, Dirty Magic
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.
— Charles Bukowski
Aren’t you going to hit him?” Éibhear asked.“I don’t feel like it.”“Good gods.” Gwenvael stood. “This is worse than we thought,Éibhear. Up, brother.” Gwenvael grabbed Briec’s arm and pulledhim to his feet. “There is only one answer for this.”“Which is?”“Drinking and eating. The whoring we will keep until we get yougood and drunk.
— G.A. Aiken, About a Dragon
When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my hobbies, finding where my dad hid his bottles. It was my version of looking for Easter eggs. In my house, Easter lasted forever.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Sala called for more drink and Sweep brought four rums, saying they were on the house. We thanked him and sat for another half hour, saying nothing. Down on the waterfront I could hear the slow clang of a ship’s bell as it eased against the pier, and somewhere in the city a motorcycle roared through the narrow streets, sending its echo up the hill to Calle O’Leary. Voices rose and fell in the house next door and the raucous sound of a jukebox came from a bar down the street. Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks, the lonely sound of time passing in the long Caribbean night.
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.
— Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an
The Brandy Diet is one of my personal favourites – you don’t lose any weight, but if you drink enough of the stuff then you neither care what you look like nor what people think of you. Also, if you’re very lucky, you can lose days.
— Kensington Gore, Kensington Gore's Diary: Another Year Closer To Death
Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every day an intelligent human being is plagued with bills, horrifying news stories and general idiocy that slowly grinds away at their psyche, breaking off pieces of it that may never fit again.
— Thor Benson
The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of “Take to the Sky,” but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.
— Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire
He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.
— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
— Spike Milligan, Puckoon
One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
— Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.
— Robert B. Parker, Valediction
Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.
— David Alejandro Fearnhead
He only drinks when he gets depressed,' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.
— Terry Pratchett
The no-booze rule is one of several shams perpetuated by certain religious groups, presumably to keep their flocks in line. After all, what’s a shepherd to do with drunk sheep? So take your medicine, but leave the booze on the shelf. We have a label to keep, and it’s not Jack Daniels. Don’t mourn for me. Just tell me what to do rather than teach me what to be. Slam another pill, pop that one last sedative…you’ll find me in the kitchen, washing my glass.
— Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you," she said. "How do you feel?""Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." I pushed Asta out of the way and got up.
— Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
New Rule: The Napa Valley is Disneyland for alcoholics. Be honest, you're not visiting wineries in four days because you're an oenophile, you're doing it because you're a drunk. It's the only place in America where you can pass out in a stranger's house and it's okay, because it's a B&B and you paid for it.
— Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.
— Ken Scott
There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me think of twilight and mists and dead maidens. Tonight it tinkled in my mouth like secret laughter.
— John Banville, The Book of Evidence
Your pony, he said as he stomped toward me. "I'm the farrier who is here to fix your pony.""I thought you were a Hells Angel," I said."I used to be," he replied. "But fighting all the time and being really drunk and nasty got boring. So now I just take care of animals.
— Jack Gantos
Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs
—  one for vodka and one for overeating.
It's a tradition to drink rakia with snacks. Not like the Russians, you know, who just drink to get drunk. I like a little snack with the news.
— Annie Ward, The Making of June
I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in the deserted afternoon I could say to myself 'I am a woman who drinks.
— Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater
empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures
— Michael Coorlim, A Gentlewoman's Chronicles
Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you.
— Jennifer Crusie, Manhunting
I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.
— Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there are crumbs... and gherkins... It's disgusting!
— Anton Chekhov, Ivanov
...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to drink would have been thought a mark of cowardice and of incapacity for self-control. A man was expected even to get drunk if necessary, and to keep his tongue and his temper no matter how much he drank. The strong character would only become more cautious and more silent under the influence of drink; the weak man would immediately show his weakness. I am told the curious fact that in the English army at the present day officers are expected to act very much after the teaching of the old Norse poet; a man is expected to be able on occasion to drink a considerable amount of wine or spirits without showing the effects of it, either in his conduct or in his speech. "Drink thy share of mead; speak fair or not at all" - that was the old text, and a very sensible one in its way.
— Eoghan Odinsson, Northern Lore: A Field Guide to the Northern Mind-Body-Spirit
We were still twirling around the tiny parking lot when the neighborsscreamed 'Happy New Year'. Unfortunately we weren't sober enough torealize that was our cue to call it a night. Josh had a new beer in his hands,Danny was eating the last hot dog and Darren and I were still dancingwhen the cops showed up.
— Kaitlin Scott, For Danny
A sober heart conceals, what a drunken mouth reveals, or in your case, a drunken body and lips.
— Taryn Plendl, In My Arms
I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night.
— Dan Ahearn, Shoot the Moon
Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
— Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.
— G.K. Chesterton
Right, what's there possibly to worry about?" she said. "Just some surgery in the garage with a drunk doctor."Little miss," said Doc, pointing a finger at Cass. "I'm drinking. I'm not drunk. There's a difference." He took another sip from his cup. "But in another ten minutes or so, that might change, so you should stop stalling.
— Gregg Rosenblum, Revolution 19
I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.
— Leslie Jamison, The Gin Closet
Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits
— Lyn Hejinian, My Life
You speak of my drinking, yet you don't know my thirst
— Scottish Proverb
I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver
— Phil Harris
I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.
— Luis Buñuel
I peer through the spectral, polluted, nicotine-sodden windows of my sock at these old lollopers in their kiddie gear. Go home, I say. Go home, lie down, and eat lots of potatoes. I had three handjobs yesterday. None was easy. Sometimes you really have to buckle down to it, as you do with all forms of exercise. It's simply a question of willpower. Anyone who's got the balls to stand there and tell me that a handjob isn't exercise just doesn't know what he's talking about. I almost had a heart-attack during number three. I take all kinds of other exercise too. I walk up and down the stairs. I climb into cabs and restaurant booths. I hike to the Butcher's Arms and the London Apprentice. I cough a lot. I throw up pretty frequently, which really takes it out of you. I sneeze, and hit the tub and the can. I get in and out of bed, often several times a day.
— Martin Amis, Money
I tried that too, you know. After ... my family was murdered, and I was waiting for justice, I tried to hide inside a bottle. But some men, Tony, [..] are not small enough to fit into a bottle.
— Aleksandr Voinov, Collateral
But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.
— Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
If I show up on your doorstep don't worry I'm just there to party.
— Kenny D. Eichenberg
(backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character)Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?''eighteen''is that enforced'Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink
— Catherine Deveny, The Happiness Show
And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived in Brooklyn, the more writers I met, and I guess I was just too drunk to put it together before but now I realized about half of them were sober. So you could be a writer and be sober. Very interesting
— Jeanne Darst, Fiction Ruined My Family
Was I on a hangover?
— Miranda Leek, Twisted!
Its funny whenever people who have'nt seen me in years meet up with me again and they are surprised that I'm not as shy and quiet as I was in the past, I credit that to my years of drinking at bars and partys and conversing with people I would never useally talk to, it was then I relized that even without drinking I could still talk to people just as easy. But It is still a little funner with a few beers in me.
— Kenny D. Eichenberg
I'd often slip and fall on the ice after last call, which explained the ever-present welts. If I were with a woman, I'd usually execute a precautionary vomit in the men's room in an effort avoid any ugly incidents once I got her back to her place. And they say chivalry is dead.
— Dan Dunn, Nobody Likes a Quitter (and other reasons to avoid rehab): The Loaded Life of an Outlaw Booze Writer
If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy
— E.J. Eisman
Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?""What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said."Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.
— Libba Bray, The Diviners
Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover.Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.
— Martin Amis, Money
I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.
— Steven Herrick
Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink,for fellows whom it hurts to think.
— A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.
— Alex Shakar, Luminarium
On the other side of the ledger stood the fact that fotitude was useless against it (liquor). Even the mightiest potsman, a paladin who could match tankards with a whole alehouse of swag-bellies Falstaffs and outquaff the parcel of them, would see his length measured upon the floor by less liquid than it would take to fill his hat.
— David Wondrich, Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl
Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?
— Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe
When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.
— Paige Skyler
I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.
— Paul W. Feenstra
He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.
— Ricardo Piglia, Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: Años de formación
‪Write only if you wish to read it again and again while falling in love with it... ‬
— Ramana Pemmaraju
As they say, it’s possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.
— Sahara Sanders
I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.
— Alan Garner
Writing allows you the unique and uncensored expression of whatever wants to be spoken.
— Deborah Sandella
It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.
— Tarang Sinha
One single letter cures the blank page.
— Stephanie Ayers
Writing is like exercise. You have to work at it to see results.
— Katie Merkel
Write something today that you future self will be proud of.
— T.N. Suarez
Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.
— Christopher Holliday
I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them; like the most delicious cherries on a cake one left for later so they can be savored to the utmost.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
When you write, you can write yourself into the world of your dreams or the world of your nightmares. The choice is yours!
— N.B. Williams
Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person’s inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
...and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.
— Natalie Goldberg
Productive writing begins from understanding the idea.
— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.
— Coco J. Ginger
those who does not read, they miss the important aspects of life.
— Bijaya
Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.
— Anthony Marais
Writing for me is never about quantity. It's always about quality.
— Raymond Bolton
A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.
— Kevin Focke
When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through my writing is as close to magic as I'll ever get again.
— Dori Ann Dupré
If there is method here, it is hard to discern it. Let it be repeated: the use of capitals is a matter not or rules but of taste; but consistency is at least not a mark of bad taste.
— H. W. Fowler
I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.
— Kevin J. Fitzgerald
History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.
— Jason E. Hodges
If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.
— Jack R. Cotner
When I write I face my demons, and defeat them.
— Jackie G. Mills
The main thing is finding the time to sit down and write. You have to make the time.
— Lisa Newton, How to Write a Book in Two Weeks:
When I read my writing, am amazed by what I have captured in a given moments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am an architect of words
—  there is no limit to the number of 'stories' I can create!
There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.
— Tiger Woods
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
— Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition
That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
If you live the same day, week, or year that you have always lived, your life will never get any better. Let yourself actually live. Fix what is broken in your life. Explore what you have left unexplored. Find the discomfort of the new and embrace it. Enjoy all that life has to offer.
— Avina Celeste
When we stop thinking of improvement, the thought process gets busy with justifying our approach, the wish to succeed comes from heart, miss that and the mind gets busy in generating excuses on how being better isn’t a better idea, & we are good the way we are.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
CIOs, more than any other executive, have an end-to-end view of how the business works and the tools to turn that view into insights. CIOs can see endless opportunities for improvement and change.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
I have always waited for the perfect tools to carve a statue, little did I realize that tools were never the issue, It's my carving skills which needed an upgrade and improvement.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Take my hand, hold on tight, and together we will jump. Jump out of the darkness and into the blinding light. I don’t know what struggle we will experience out there but I believe it is better than struggling here in the darkness. Together let’s change our lives. Let us take risks to create a better life. I believe.
— Avina Celeste
The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)
— Walter Cronkite
The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
Though you may feel that you cannot improve the world, you can always improve yourself. In doing so, the world becomes a better place.
— John Bruna
The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)” ― Walter Cronkite
— Walter Cronkite
…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.
— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway on Writing
Observe your imperfections. Love them. Then move through them.
— Matthew Donnelly
... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated at the first, it becomes easy to recognize but impossible to cure. And so it is with State affairs.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Challenge yourself everyday to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances.
— Robert Tew
...it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.
— Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
Welcome and embrace closed doors, as they are gateways to new opportunities.
— Lasean Rinique
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
— Karin Slaughter
Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.
— James Patterson, Miracle on the 17th Green: A Novel about Life, Love, Family, Miracles ... and Golf
a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
The difference between change and improvement is very easy to understand: change is temporary and improvement is permanent. Change is for a temporary feeling one may have due to circumstances. Improvement means to permanently change oneself in the name of ones self. Change only makes you stronger when it’s an improvement from your current situation.
— Mohammad Salman B. Sanayon
The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.
— Alexander Graham Bell
Nobody ever washes a rental car.
— Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
Nothing Succeeds Like Success".
— Behnam Rajabpoor
As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved!
— Bruce Van Horn
Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)
— Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,—the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.
— Humphry Davy
Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.
— Oprah Winfrey
Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
— Douglass B. Reeves
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
— Stephen King
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""How very rude of him.""I told him I was."Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
— J.K. Rowling
Have you ever seen anything quite as pathetic?" said Malfoy. "And he’s supposed to be our teacher!"Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first - SMACK!She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. Malfoy staggered. Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood flabbergasted as Hermione raised her hand 
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Swish and flick.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
— J.K. Rowling
Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
It was not, after all, so easy to die.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity."No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account.""Really?""It did for me," said Harry.He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Hermione had taken his hand again and was gripping it tightly. He could not look at her, but returned the pressure, now taking deep, sharp gulps of the night air, trying to steady himself, trying to regain control. He should have brought something to give them, and he had not thought of it, and every plant in the graveyard was leafless and frozen. But Hermione raised her wand, moved it in a circle through the air, and a wreath of Christmas roses blossomed before them. Harry caught it and laid it on his parent's grave.As soon as he stood up he wanted to leave: He did not think he could stand another moment there. He put his arm around Hermione's shoulders, and she put hers around his waist, and they turned in silence and walked away through the snow, past Dumbledore's mother and sister, back toward the dark church and the out-of-sight kissing gate.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn."Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don’t know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be ‘Mad-Eye.’ Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Beds empty! No note! Car gone — could have crashed — out of my mind with worry — did you care? — never, as long as I’ve lived — you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie or Percy —""Perfect Percy,” muttered
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,' Ron mumbled.'Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,' said Harry. 'I've been trying to tell you that for years.'Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron's jacket.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still won’t go out with me —''JORDAN!' yelled Professor McGonagall.'Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest —
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new 
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
I see you are —”“Dumbledore’s man through and through,” said Harry. “That’s right.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid."You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore."I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Give her hell from us, Peeves."And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
But...surely you know where your nephew is going?' she asked, looking bewildered.'Certainly we know,' said Vernon Dursley. 'He's off with some of your lot, isn't he? Right, Dudley, let's get in the car, you heard the man, we're in a hurry.'Again, Vernon Dursley marched as far as the front door, but Dudley did not follow.'Off with some of our lot?'Hestia looked outraged. Harry had met the attitude before: witches and wizards seemed stunned that his closest living family took so little interest in the famous Harry Potter.'It's fine,' Harry assured her. 'It doesn't matter, honestly.''Doesn't matter?' repeated Hestia, her voice rising ominously.'Don't these people realise what you've been through? What danger you are in? The unique position you hold in the hearts of the anti-Voldemort movement?'Er - no, they don't,' said Harry. 'They think I'm a waste of space, actually, but I'm used to -''I don't think you're a waste of space.'If Harry had not seen Dudley's lips move, he might not have believed it.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.
— Jaida Jones
Killing rips the soul apart.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince."What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?""That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago."I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?""There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-""Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!
— Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?