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Famous quotes by Novelists

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
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"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee"
Herman Melville, Novelist
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread"
Anatole France, Novelist
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
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"We are most alive when we're in love"
John Updike, Novelist
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"We are so very 'umble"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger"
Mario Puzo, Novelist
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"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men"
Emile Zola, Novelist
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"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct"
Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist
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"A word after a word after a word is power"
Margaret Atwood, Novelist
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger"
J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"
Gail Godwin, Novelist
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"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant"
Anatole France, Novelist
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"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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"Dread of night. Dread of not-night"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
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"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow"
James Joyce, Novelist
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"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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"You was a good man, and did good things"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
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"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
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"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"
Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist
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"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard"
Herman Melville, Novelist
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"All morons hate it when you call them a moron"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
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"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
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"Our lives teach us who we are"
Salman Rushdie, Novelist
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