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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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

  Louise Erdrich

  Change, Native American, Growing

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• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Knives, Grows

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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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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Being Yourself, Want, Good Person

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Philosopher

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

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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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• I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Suicide, Drinking

  Charles Bukowski, “The Suicide Kid”

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• I am a cage, in search of a bird.

  Franz Kafka

  Bird, Cages, Chaos

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• Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Future, Cherish Every Moment

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

  Clive Cussler

  Inspirational, History, Luck

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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