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Frank Yerby Quotes

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Frank Yerby
Maturity, Needs, Lied
Frank Yerby (1972). “The girl from Storyville”

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

Frank Yerby
Writing, Cutting, Knives

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

Frank Yerby
Wall, Believe, Inspiration

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Frank Yerby
Death, Men
Frank Yerby (1967). “Goat song: a novel of ancient Greece”

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

Frank Yerby
Trouble, Over It

The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

Frank Yerby
Simple, Men, Years

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Yerby
New Orleans, Sea, Rivers

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