Famous quotes by Novelists

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star"

Sinclair Lewis, Novelist

"Self-love seems so often unrequited"

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"It's every woman's tragedy that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"A book is simply the container of an idea, like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need and clamor for a leader"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist

"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances, and they become more extraordinary because of it"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"A librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist"

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!"

Philip Roth, Novelist

"History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"

Philip Roth, Novelist

"One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"Calmness is the cradle of power"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

""Work and wait", "work and wait" is what God says to us in creation"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"Translation is the art of failure"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"Nothing fails like failure"

Margaret Drabble, Novelist

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