Novelists Quotes - Page 12

• A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

  Anthony Burgess

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nature, Silly, Intelligent

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Courage, Pain

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 29, 2011

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• It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Truth, Freedom

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

  Henry James

  Heart, Knowing, Lasts

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Keep passing the open windows.

  John Irving

  Life, Depression, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by John Irving from Aug 06, 2014

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• It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Wisdom, Freedom

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

  Thornton Wilder

  Encouraging, Money, Humorous

  "The Matchmaker". Play by Thornton Wilder. Act 4, 1957.

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• I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Reading, Literature

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Reading, Health

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• All language is but a poor translation.

  Franz Kafka

  Ironic, Language, Poor

  "Franz Kafka And James Baldwin: Blackstar 10/1/16" by Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. January 16, 2016.

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• If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.

  Cornelia Funke

  Memories, Book, Reading

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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  Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Communication, Language

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

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• I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, People, Lovely

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.77, Penguin

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• It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Dark, Grieving

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.247, Penguin

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• He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Couple, Eye

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• It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Life, Motivational, Moving On

  Kaye Gibbons (1997). “A Virtuous Woman”, p.25, Algonquin Books

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• Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Behaviour, Abnormal

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• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Friends, Mother, Character

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

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• So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Stupid People, Society

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.53, Penguin

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