Famous quotes by Novelists

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Life is a tragedy full of joy"

Bernard Malamud, Novelist

"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"War is what happens when language fails"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened"

Hector Hugh Munro, Novelist

"Its love that makes the world go round, my baby"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Some folk want their luck buttered"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him"

Aharon Appelfeld, Novelist

"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

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