Novelist Quotes

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
To be a Jew is a destiny.
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
There are no signposts in the sea.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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