Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Novelists - Page 6

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

Small things amuse small minds.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

There is no there there.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

We are always the same age inside.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

?"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

It is very easy to love alone.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

'Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.