Famous quotes by Novelists

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity"

Emile Zola, Novelist

Emile Zola

"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"Accept loss forever"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"Friendship and money: oil and water"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"Death, the last voyage, the longest, and the best"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power"

George MacDonald, Novelist

""Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney- Every decision you make is a mistake"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell"

George A. Moore, Novelist

"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end"

George A. Moore, Novelist

"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails"

John Mortimer, Novelist

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