Top 25 Quotes by Karl Marlantes of 31 - Page 2

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

Karl Marlantes

Character, Long, Literature

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

Karl Marlantes

Writing, Years, Agents

He lay before God as a woman opens herself to a man, with legs apart, stomach exposed, arms open. But unlike some women, he did not have the inner strength that allowed them to do such a thing without fear. There was no woman’s strength in Mellas at all.

Karl Marlantes

Men, Inner Strength, Legs

Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”, p.414, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

Karl Marlantes

Vets, Mature, Cynicism

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

Karl Marlantes

Mad At Someone, Switzerland, Able

Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.39, Atlantic Books Ltd