William Maxwell may refer to: (wikipedia)
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.
Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.
My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.
I am the cat that walks alone.
The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,
In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
