Novel Quotes - Page 4

Be the hero of your own story.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

All of my novels are democracies.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.