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Famous quotes by Novelists

"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist
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"The tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them"
Emily Bronte, Novelist
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind"
H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist
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"The waste basket is the writer's best friend"
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist
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"The wrong way always seems the more reasonable"
George A. Moore, Novelist
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"The difficulty in life is the choice"
George A. Moore, Novelist
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"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute"
John Mortimer, Novelist
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"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling"
Edna Ferber, Novelist
Edna Ferber
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"The world is always in movement"
V. S. Naipaul, Novelist
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"It takes two flints to make a fire"
Louisa May Alcott, Novelist
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"There are no signposts in the sea"
Vita Sackville-West, Novelist
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"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful"
Vita Sackville-West, Novelist
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"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us"
Boris Pasternak, Novelist
Boris Pasternak
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"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go"
Bernard Malamud, Novelist
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"Love means not ever having to say you're sorry"
Erich Segal, Novelist
Erich Segal
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"The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else"
Aaron Allston, Novelist
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"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere"
Jean Rhys, Novelist
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"Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny"
Charles Reade, Novelist
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"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance"
William Gaddis, Novelist
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"A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen"
Diane Johnson, Novelist
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"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story"
John Barth, Novelist
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"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake"
Simon Raven, Novelist
Simon Raven
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"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
Charles Dickens
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"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
Charles Dickens
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"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
Charles Dickens
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"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
Charles Dickens
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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
Charles Dickens
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"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
Charles Dickens
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