Novelist Quotes

The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.

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

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

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.

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

H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway — you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Brandon Sanderson

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

Lawrence Durrell

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

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

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

Robert Sheckley

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

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

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

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Bernard Cornwell

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

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

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

David Ebershoff