Novelist Quotes

Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.

Maria Dahvana Headley

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Carolyn Mackler

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

Judith Merkle Riley

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.

Kerry Greenwood

When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

Caitlin Kittredge

I am going to devour you, Magdelegna, he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

Jacquelyn Frank

My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

Michael Robotham

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

George Barr McCutcheon

The more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on.

Catherine Asaro

Off with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between.

Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.

The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

James Grippando

Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.

Mike Carey (writer)

Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.

Annabel Pitcher

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

David Ebershoff

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

Mark Haskell Smith