Novelists 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.

Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.