Famous quotes by Novelists

Small: You was a good man, and did good things
"You was a good man, and did good things"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
Small: Im sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect
J.D. Salinger
"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
Small: Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of
"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of"
William Golding, Novelist
Small: Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a th
Paulo Coelho
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
Small: The waste basket is the writers best friend
"The waste basket is the writer's best friend"
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist
Small: Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when theres no need for secrecy
"Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy"
Donna Tartt, Novelist
Small: Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
Small: The formula Two and two make five is not without its attractions
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: To love someone means to see him as God intended him
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: Music is the shorthand of emotion
Leo Tolstoy
"Music is the shorthand of emotion"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: All morons hate it when you call them a moron
J.D. Salinger
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
Small: Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance
James Joyce
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance"
James Joyce, Novelist
Small: The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know
"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off"
William Golding, Novelist
Small: Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice
E. M. Forster
"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
Small: Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience
Paulo Coelho
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
Small: The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part
Miguel de Cervantes
"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
Small: The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for book
Richard Wright
"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing"
Richard Wright, Novelist
Small: Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest but where and how that something comes I leave to T
Mary Webb
"Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best"
Mary Webb, Novelist
Small: Ironically, in todays marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must
Jerry B. Jenkins
"Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable"
Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist
Small: I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily
"I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily"
Marguerite Yourcenar, Novelist
Small: We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language
"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language"
Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist
Small: His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into i
"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind"
Anne Bronte, Novelist
Small: The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop"
John Updike, Novelist
Small: A man is only as good as what he loves
"A man is only as good as what he loves"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
Small: Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a ge
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
Small: The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: Realists do not fear the results of their study
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Realists do not fear the results of their study"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: To live without Hope is to Cease to live
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
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