Novel Quotes

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

All language is but a poor translation.

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

The human heart is bigger than the world.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.