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4391 Novelist Quotes

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

What's broken The heat
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Space Feel equals Marvelous Happiness
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Past exudes Legend Pure clay No life
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye

A writer Spectator Looking at everything Critical eye
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them

Wrong book The fear
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We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Persecuted Most civilized languages
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

My life Accomplish Something worthwhile People
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

My dreams Ate
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got

Charity Can give Haven't got
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others

Purpose Freedom Create Others
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me

When Feel hurt Hope Bury me
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We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.

Two lives Life We learn Suffering
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

There comes Time Man's life No doors
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Wild begins Least expect Normal course
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Life is a tragedy full of joy

Life Tragedy Full Joy
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are

Who write Reflect About life You are
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Man To construct Invent His freedom
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Teach Yourself Work Uncertainty
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Most lives Living joy Celebrations Illusions
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we are all terribly alone no matter what people say

Terribly alone No matter People say
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Clothes cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Clothes Cannot change Man's nature Kind
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Tomorrow The world Same Today
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Children You loved Gave back Were grown
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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Be friends Relatives The world Have
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Man Has to Learn His nature
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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Don't think Do anything Giving up Something
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Failure Condiment Gives success Its flavor
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

Anyone Who ever Gave you Confidence
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

More tears Answered prayer Unanswered ones
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
Better Look The sky Live there
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Love somebody Stranger Friend
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Can't blame Writer Characters say
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

Can't give Your heart Wild thing
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Don't care What Anybody says True
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Loved her Forget myself Self pitying Be content
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It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

No shame Have Dirty face Comes
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There is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

One unpardonable Sin Deliberate cruelty Forgiven
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As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

You live Something waiting Bad Stop living
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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Love No geography Knows No boundaries
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Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

The older You grow Into action Locked up heard
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Imagination Open Any door Key
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

Life Without something Confound it My goat
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Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floating, they create

Real fear Sounds Footsteps Walking
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I despise people who can't control themselves.

Despise people Can't control Themselves
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Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

Have you Wise man Future exists The past
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

Disquieting loneliness My life No hunger Friends
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I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Have cancer Dishonest heart Just practical
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

The dead Lonesome Living
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

The problem Living outside Law Have
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Thought The future Spoke Past
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