Famous quotes by Novelists

"A desert is a place without expectation"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink"

Booth Tarkington, Novelist

Booth Tarkington

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than: find as quickly as possible someone to worship"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Realists do not fear the results of their study"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part 'cause I get to make up the stories"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Once we have a war, there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Love is a game in which one always cheats"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

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