Frank Yerby Quotes

• Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

  Frank Yerby

  Maturity, Needs, Lied

  Frank Yerby (1972). “The girl from Storyville”

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• It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

  Frank Yerby

  Writing, Cutting, Knives

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• Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

  Frank Yerby

  Wall, Believe, Inspiration

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• Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

  Frank Yerby

  Death, Men

  Frank Yerby (1967). “Goat song: a novel of ancient Greece”

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• When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

  Frank Yerby

  Trouble, Over It

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• The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

  Frank Yerby

  Simple, Men, Years

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• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Frank Yerby

  New Orleans, Sea, Rivers

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