Quotes by Novelists

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. Samuel Richardson

Life Good Man Good Man Passions His Warfare

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. Saul Bellow

Happiness You Yourself Free Other Distractions Only Found

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sad Love Past Had Longer Because Am Ashamed Present

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis

Love Morning Romantic Evening Star

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. Thomas Wolfe

Life You Feeling Prevent True Escape Escaping Romantic Desire

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. Thomas Wolfe

Time Miracles Country Fabulous Only America Where Happen Place

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. Tom Clancy

Spooky Made Out Be Real Part Stuff Real Up Turned

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Tom Clancy

Life You Change World Will Nothing Responsibilities Dream Obscure Around Real Erase May Duties Your Your Dream Need

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Toni Morrison

Strange Power Ability Writers Self Test Familiar Imagine

I get angry about things, then go on and work. Toni Morrison

Work Angry Anger About Go Get Then Things

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. Truman Capote

Me Care Long Says About True dont Care Anybody

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote

Eating Entire Like Venice Box Go Chocolate

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. V. S. Naipaul

Work You People Other Born Through Self Mass Ideas Expectations

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov

Darkness Light Abyss Sense Our Tells Above Between Existence Rocks Crack Cradle Common Common Sense Us Brief Two

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. William Golding

Me Walk Peer Faces Step Over Yesterdays Shoulder Keep Gray

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. William Makepeace Thackeray

Appreciation Excellence Next

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. Aimee Bender

Day Birthday Happy Complicated Cake Emblem Something Tempting More Like Because Than Childhood Just Happy Birthday Symbol Symbolic Load