Famous quotes by Novelists

"Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?"

Erich Segal, Novelist

Erich Segal

"Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?"

Erich Segal, Novelist

Erich Segal

"Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness"

Erich Segal, Novelist

Erich Segal

"Where the law ends, tyranny begins"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

Djuna Barnes

"Violence is the first refuge of the violent"

Aaron Allston, Novelist

"The way to a man's heart is through his chest"

Aaron Allston, Novelist

"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

Djuna Barnes

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

Djuna Barnes

"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

Djuna Barnes

"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it"

Aaron Allston, Novelist

"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"Love is not a volunteer thing"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"It is much easier to find fault with others than to be faultless ourselves"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

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