Quotes on Novelists

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.