Canadian Novelist Quotes

Alice Munro

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A. E. van Vogt

Mavis Gallant

Mazo de la Roche

Gabrielle Roy

Louise Penny

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don't let it devour you.

Michelle Sagara

When Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

Steven Galloway

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead... that's the miracle.

Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.

May Agnes Fleming

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. but there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

Sarah Mlynowski

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

Barry Webster (writer)

If I don't do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

Cheryl Rainfield

The ultimate umpire of all things in Life is — Fact.

Agnes Christina Laut

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

There are deep lines on each side of his mouth and I know they are the scars from the thin blade of life.

Deborah Joy Corey

It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind.

Rafe turned up looking like the glass of fashion and the mold of form.

Hulbert Footner

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Margaret Laurence

The Christian Scientists held that it was not God Who wanted sickness, but man who [put] himself in the way of suffering. If this were the case, though, wouldn't we all die in perfect health?

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.

Alexei Maxim Russell