Novelist Quotes

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

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

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

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

Caitlin Kittredge

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

Jack Williamson

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

Christie Ridgway

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

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

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

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

Laura Kasischke

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

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

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.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Patrick O'Brian

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

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

Loren D. Estleman

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

Jonathan Evison

Sometimes when we think we're protecting ourselves, we're really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need.

The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

But it is never over;
nothing ends until we want it to.
Look, in shattered midnights,
On black ice under silver trees,
We are still dancing, dancing.

Gwendolyn MacEwen

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