Famous quotes by Novelists

"As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere"

Jean Rhys, Novelist

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not, Squatter's rights of the heart"

James Hilton, Novelist

"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens"

Charles Morgan, Novelist

"The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too"

David Storey, Novelist

"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide!"

Henri Barbusse, Novelist

"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them"

Jeffrey Eugenides, Novelist

"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love, but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"'Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Dream in a pragmatic way"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Never mistake motion for action"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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