Novelist Quotes

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

Jack Williamson

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

Lauren Barnholdt

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

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

Catherine Asaro

Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman, a fractal image made up of the particulate sunbathers. All the beaches pressed together might form female landmasses, female continents, female planets and galaxies. No wonder men felt tense.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

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

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?' 'Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of -' 'Someone you used to know?' Alec interjected skeptically. 'Someone I used to be.

Lynn Flewelling

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

Paul Stewart (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

For chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

H. Russell Wakefield

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

Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.

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

Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.

Ysabeau S. Wilce

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Karin Slaughter

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?

There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined, depleted, drained, overworked, over-loved, its plants and animals becoming endangered and exterminated faster than we can renew them. Our country is silent, so we must speak and act to save it.

The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves.

Joseph F. Girzone

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.