Famous quotes by Novelists

"We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are"

Paul Scott, Novelist

"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man"

Nelson Algren, Novelist

"Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind"

Wilkie Collins, Novelist

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"The motto was "Pax", but the word was set in a circle of thorns""

Rumer Godden, Novelist

"Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable"

John D. MacDonald, Novelist

"The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance"

Sue Townsend, Novelist

"The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof"

Anzia Yezierska, Novelist

"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake"

Simon Raven, Novelist

"A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her heart's inspiration"

Edmondo De Amicis, Novelist

"If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny"

Kate O'Brien, Novelist

"The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming, although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you"

Robert Stone, Novelist

"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you"

Alex Haley, Novelist

"Women are like dogs, really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket"

Mary Roberts Rinehart, Novelist

"After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists"

Dorothy Dunnett, Novelist

"Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't, and haven't, but that's my problem"

Tom Holt, Novelist

"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment"

Fanny Burney, Novelist

"If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience"

Brian Moore, Novelist

"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battlefield are not bleeding"

Georges Duhamel, Novelist

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

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