Famous quotes by Novelists

"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"For years I wanted to be older, and now I am"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"This above all: to refuse to be a victim"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

"It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"What is more immoral than war?"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"I confess, I do not believe in time"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

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