Famous quotes by Novelists

"When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager, either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"It's love that makes the world go round, my baby"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

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

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Some folk want their luck buttered"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"War is what happens when language fails"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

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

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

Charlotte Bronte

"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

Amelia Barr

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for"

Margaret Mitchell, Novelist

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There is no truth. There is only perception"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Not all who wander are lost"

J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist

J. R. R. Tolkien

"Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no"

J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist

J. R. R. Tolkien

"Courage is found in unlikely places"

J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist

J. R. R. Tolkien

"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"

George Meredith, Novelist

George Meredith

"If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

Paulo Coelho

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

J.D. Salinger

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