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4391 Novelist Quotes

Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cheapest Love Religions
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Homesick Places Never Known
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Mind Richly Tapestry Distilled
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Live People Create Made
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book

Makes Improvisation Human Existence
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Theme Humiliation Square Root
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Coming Down Hardest Climbing
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Heart Lonely Hunter
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lilies of the swamp.
Mediocre Person Object Love
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Owing Mute Give Qualities
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
Once Live Great Torture
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
Value Quality Love Determined
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

Heart Small Children Delicate
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

Who You Are Have
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree
Like Cat Climbing Wrong
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Passion is more important than justice.

Passion Important Justice
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Being Being There Best Create
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My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Because Been Course Crimes
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Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
Best Solitary Sometimes Voice
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Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Back Cause Church Coming
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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Back Bring Dreary Even
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I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

About Batman Going Older
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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

About Artist Book Car
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Call Cartoon Cartooning Could
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Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Cartoonists Come Dirty Draw
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But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Accused Anybody Being Convince
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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

Back Been Boss Brat
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'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

America Clowns False Fed
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3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

Atrocity Attacked Burn Country
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When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

Beautiful Beautiful Woman Brush Hand
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

Book Books Call Come
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The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

After Always Dark Definitely
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Ballpark Batman Character Crowd
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Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Amazing Beauty Capturing Comics
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Resentment Precious Flower Poverty
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?

Do Have Home Homesick
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

Face Brooding Peace Faces
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Those Who Thousand Miracle
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

Meditated Love Reasoned Realized
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Lover Beloved Two Come
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Most Fatal Man Do
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

Imagination Takes Love Humility
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

Fought People Slept Habit
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Way Need Loneliness Bear
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them

People Longed Bad Made
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Made Suddenly Wonder World
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
Failing Love Easiest Thing
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It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Wisdom Beginning Recognize Best
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The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Life

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom But to scar tissue and callus. Life
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