Novelist Quotes

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
A play visibly represents pure existing.
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
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