Explore Quotes on Novelists

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

All good novelists have bad memories.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.