Novelist Quotes: Words of Wisdom from Renowned Storytellers (Page 4)

"Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path"

Mary Webb, Novelist

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"I get angry about things, then go on and work"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"A desert is a place without expectation"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived"

Harper Lee, Novelist

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"

James Dickey, Novelist

"In a certain sense the Good is comfortless"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell"

George A. Moore, Novelist

"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible"

Russell Hoban, Novelist

"After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world"

Bertha von Suttner, Novelist

"A laugh is a terrible weapon"

Kate O'Brien, Novelist

"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping"

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist

"Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful"

Vita Sackville-West, Novelist

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme"

Diane Johnson, Novelist

"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

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