Quotes by Novelists

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats. Paulo Coelho

Life Good Me Challenges Fight Curiosity Victories Interests Defeats

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. Paulo Coelho

Success Good Failure You Think Explanation Explanations

MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress. Paulo Coelho

Facebook Wife Myspace Mistress

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life. Peter Carey

Life You People Think Other About Private Private Life Shout Right

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. Peter De Vries

Food Sign Eating Something Emotional Gluttony Escape Us

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. Rachel Field

Happiness Good You Too Much Too Oasis Unaware Like Make Smug Surrounds Greener Much Should Fortune Desert Good Fortune

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. Richard Bach

Inspirational Life Fear Overcome My Life Changed Picked Wonder Behold Meaning

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. Richard Bach

Strong Win Men Stronger Strong Men Make Them Then Beliefs

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. Richard Bach

Life You Be Happy Happy Yourself Will Important Lost Thinking Somehow Someone Until Make Always Manage Room Might Your Searching

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. Richard Bach

You Fly Thought Must Knowing Arrived Begin Fast

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore. Roald Dahl

Broken You Laughter Joke Skin Chap Backside Slip Laughing Fine See Fine Line He Roar Between Roaring Disaster Crying Because Doing Line His Falls Very Banana Leg Quickly Stop Anymore Suddenly Slap Street

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. Robertson Davies

Time Be Happy Happy Fool Only Expects

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. Salman Rushdie

Reality Sometimes Become More Facts Make Than Legends Useful

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson

Friendship Time Happy Marriage Cares State Our Pleasures Mutual Dividing Highest Participation Same Same Time Them Doubles

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson

Integrity Mother Invention Calamity Well Test May Necessity

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Saul Bellow

Distant Must Small Take Steps Reach Goal Wants Whoever

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it. Simone Schwarz-Bart

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. Sue Grafton

Wonderful Men High Would Would-Be High Heels Wearing Were Heels Them