Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Yerby

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Frank Garvin Yerby was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow.

American - Author | September 5, 1916 - November 29, 1991

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From where they stood, they could see the castle.

Frank Yerby

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Yerby

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

Frank Yerby

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

Frank Yerby

The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

Frank Yerby

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

Frank Yerby

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Frank Yerby

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Frank Yerby

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

Frank Yerby

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Yerby

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