Novelist Quotes

Bits of jokes, bits of statistics, bits of foolery.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

And even the most pleasant of dreams could be painful under the light of the morning sun.

Christopher Golden

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand...

Nice? It's the ONLY thing, said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing... he went on dreamily: messing about... in... boats; messing..

Kenneth Grahame

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.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

H. Rider Haggard

Everybody rich and happy. She smiled. Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

Dashiell Hammett

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

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

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

Elizabeth Hardwick

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Does the wine our goblets gleam in;
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
Then fill to-night, with hearts as light
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim
And break on the lips while meeting.

Charles Fenno Hoffman

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.