Famous quotes by Novelists

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start, and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it"

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

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The function of man is to live, not to exist"

Jack London, Novelist

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

Jack London, Novelist

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"If you want to be happy, be"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

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

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Madame Bovary is myself"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

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