Famous quotes by Novelists

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history, and that is the most important of all the lessons of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The shortest answer is doing the thing"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Read in order to live"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

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