Quotes by : Matthew Pearl

A man was leaning idly against an elm. ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle,....

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and....

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that....

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men....

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet....

He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left....

Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell,....

Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer,....

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without....