"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."

Home, Work, Whim

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"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Home, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Home, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Home, Family, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Home, Comfort, Nothing

"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Home, Happiness, Truth, Life

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Home, Artist, Europe, Paris

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Home, Life, Traveling

"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Home, Love, Nothing, Security

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"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."

Fool

"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."

Desire

"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."

Books

"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."

Home

"They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive."

Time

"Novel writing wrecks homes."

Writing

"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day."

Writing

"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."

Writing

"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."

Work

"I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers."

Thought