Quotes by Novelists

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. Charles Dickens

Better Rest Better Thing Known Go Than Done Far Ever Thing

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. Edna Ferber

Better Big Than Mean Necessarily Violets

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Elie Wiesel

Before Indifference Because Dies Actually

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald

Trust Few Delights Equal Whom Utterly Presence

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. Hermann Hesse

You Yourself Hate Ourselves Disturb Something Part Him Person Us

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac

Failure Fault Control Passions Lack Them

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James Baldwin

Poverty Extremely Struggled Knows How Expensive Anyone Poor Who Ever

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy

Stupid Abnormal Nietzsche

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood

Love Valentines Day Important Ought Had Names Because Snow Them Many

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort. Paulo Coelho

You Learning Problem World Sometimes Think Correct Point Never Reach Understand Always Making Effort Stop Moving

My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay. Sue Townsend

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison

You Book Must Write Written Read Been Want Then Really

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Toni Morrison

You Ride Air Could

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead. Vanna Bonta

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley

History Men Important Most Learn Very The Most Important Much Lessons

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Arthur Koestler

Courage Fears Never Influenced Your Actions

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. Caleb Carr

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk

You Sometimes Something Get Screwed Things

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love God See Someone Him Intended To Love Means