Don’t say you’re a writer if you’re not writing. Even if you’re writing, don’t call yourself a writer. Say instead, ‘I write.’ It’s the verb that’s important, not the noun.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… It sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds—to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me...

There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop...

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of...

Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle...

The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.

I think now I’m up to something like 85 different titles that I’ve published.

Maia screamed and woke. ‘Serenity?’ Cala’s voice, Cala’s angular shape outlined against the window. ‘ ‘Tis an ironic title, in sooth,’ Maia said feebly, realizing that the entangling garments of the nightmare were merely his...

What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the...

A lot of people call you a feminist painter.””What indeed,” I say. “I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I’m too old to have invented it and you’re too young to understand it, so...

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever...

His Majesty, may he live forever and prosper greatly…His Majesty, may sun finches warble sweet melodies in his ear…His Majesty, may orchids bloom in the wake of his passing…His Majesty, may minstrels compose epics at...

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.

Books require titles; reading them doesn’t

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.