Famous quotes by Novelists

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"All things truly wicked start from innocence"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"In diving to the bottom of pleasure, we bring up more gravel than pearls"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"There is something great and terrible about suicide"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The more one judges, the less one loves"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past"

Jack London, Novelist

"It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself"

Jack London, Novelist

"Not all the monsters have fangs"

Jack London, Novelist

"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel"

Jack London, Novelist

"I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself"

Jack London, Novelist

"The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage"

Jack London, Novelist

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"In a certain sense, the Good is comfortless"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

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