Novelist Quotes

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

Maria Jane McIntosh

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

Paul Stewart (writer)

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

At dawn, a railwaywoman
On a country platform whirls on the end of a chain
An irrelevant key, while a young guard makes to wipe
A crumb from her lapel; and see, she smiles
A permissory smile you take in from your corner seat:
A cameo of unrehearsed perfection.

People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.

My writing about Cuba [is] more like an act of creation. Whatever my Cuba is about, it's my own version. I'm not a cultural anthropologist.

There is no power in nature which from nothing could have made the universe, and none which could reduce the universe to nothing:

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.

Loren D. Estleman

The way we lay
we mimed a body
of water. It was
this or that way
with
the dead and we
were them.

Nathaniel Mackey

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead,
The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work

Christie Ridgway

The implications of self-definition, self-celebration, and perhaps not a little self-inflation and self-designation are nevertheless quite as obvious in each as for all.

Albert Murray (writer)

We are the kind of short-
term visitors who
each engage the heart
of each
others lives, one
anothers bodies;
sometimes forever yet
so brief the
sad distance
of
our all-night transit
leaves us
numb: to love.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.

Thomas M. Disch

None but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.

Sophie von La Roche

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.

There was a thick carpet upon the floor, a sofa piled with cushions in one corner, and several other articles of furniture. The walls, however, were uncovered and were stained with damp. A great pink fungus stood out within a few inches of the bed, a grim mixture of exquisite colouring and loathsome imperfections. The atmosphere was fetid.

E. Phillips Oppenheim

There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

I'm so black they call me nighttime
When I walk along everyone looks for stars.

I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.

R. Scott Bakker