Explore Quotes on Novelists

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

Truth is created, not discover!