Novelists Quotes - Page 2

• You must be prepared to work always without applause.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Work, Recognition

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1053, Simon and Schuster

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• ...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hard Work, Mean, Humility

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• It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Sad, Sick, Would Be

  Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.13, Vintage

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• Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

  Aberjhani

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

  Cassandra Clare

  Sad, Time, Get Well

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Happy, Children, Hate

  www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Love, Romantic, Sea

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Winter Rose”, p.767, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Addiction

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• If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

  Arundhati Roy

  Happy, Dream, Doe

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• There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

  Darynda Jones

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.26, Macmillan

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• I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  Vikram Seth

  Future, Writing, World

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• Find what you love and let it kill you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  "Did Charles Bukowski Really Say, 'Find What You Love and Let it Kill You?'" by Jef Rouner, www.houstonpress.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Remember, Sometimes

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• If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Broken Heart, Hurt

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• Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Relationship, Break Up, Letting Go

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

  Tamora Pierce

  Change, Way, Action

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 26, 2014

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• Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Confidence, Power

  "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

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• The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom

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• Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Choices Made, Bravery

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.34, Penguin

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• You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Beautiful, Knowing

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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• There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dying, Way, Causes

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.304, Vintage

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• When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.

  Catherine Marshall

  Love, Religious, Jesus

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