Novelist Quotes: Words of Wisdom from Renowned Storytellers (Page 3)

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

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

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were"

Richard Bach, Novelist

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

Richard Bach, Novelist

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day"

James Joyce, Novelist

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world"

Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist