Famous quotes by Novelists

"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone"

Emily Bronte, 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

"The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past"

Mary Webb, Novelist

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 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

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer, 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

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

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

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

George MacDonald, Novelist

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

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

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

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

Sinclair Lewis, Novelist

"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"

Tom Clancy, 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

"Self-love seems so often unrequited"

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written"

Elizabeth Bowen, 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

"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"

Laurence Sterne, 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

"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

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

Laurence Sterne, 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

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

John Mortimer, Novelist

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