Famous quotes by Novelists

"Nothing fails like failure"

Margaret Drabble, Novelist

"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war"

Philip Roth, Novelist

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

Boris Pasternak

"Life is painful, nasty and short... In my case it has only been painful and nasty"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

Djuna Barnes

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

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive"

Alan Paton, 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

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

Scott Turow, Novelist

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

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Every doorway, every intersection, has a story"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens"

Charles Morgan, 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

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

David Storey, Novelist

David Storey

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

Henri Barbusse, Novelist

Henri Barbusse

"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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"'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

Charles Dickens

"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

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"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

Aldous Huxley

"Dream in a pragmatic way"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

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