Famous quotes by Novelists

"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Jests that give pains are no jests"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"It's ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Make a difference about something other than yourselves"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"If you're going to hold someone down, you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"I merged those two words, Black and feminist, because I was surrounded by Black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Love is always being given where it is not required"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity: coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Nonsense and beauty have close connections"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Art is the objectification of feeling"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it"

Herman Melville, Novelist

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