Famous quotes by Novelists

"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all"

Richard Wright, Novelist

"Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented"

Richard Wright, Novelist

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread"

Richard Wright, Novelist

"Life is a tragedy full of joy"

Bernard Malamud, Novelist

"Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"What you risk reveals what you value"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Every writer I know has trouble writing"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"When everything is easy, one quickly gets stupid"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man"

Alan Paton, Novelist

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"Language is not only the key to a culture, but also the mirror in which it can be seen"

Ismail Kadare, Novelist

"History is the nightmare from which I am trying to awake"

Ismail Kadare, Novelist

"I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any"

Jean Rhys, Novelist

"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does"

James Hilton, Novelist

"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"Every doorway, every intersection, has a story"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

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