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— Michael Palin"I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them."
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One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
— James Buchan
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When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.
— Jean Giono
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