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Quotes by Novelist
"The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time."
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"A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances."
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"And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary."
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"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."
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"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."
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"If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.The Brothers KaramazovMitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret."
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"I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?"
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"My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me."
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"Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary."
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"Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being."
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
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"They reached the summit of a shallow incline and were greeted with a surprising vista of bluebells that blanketed the forest floor. It was like stumbling into a dream, the cerulean haze seeping between the trunks of oak and beech and ash. The smell of bluebells was everywhere, the perfumed air feeling heavy and rich in her lungs.Pausing by a slender tree trunk, Annabelle curled her arm around it loosely and stared at the stands of bluebells with surprised pleasure. "Lovely," she murmured, her face gleaming in the shadow cast by the canopy of ancient, interlaced branches."Yes." But Hunt was looking at her, not the bluebells, and one glance at his expression caused the blood to tingle in her veins."
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"Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply."
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"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
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"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor."
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"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
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"Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming, we can't even fathom that we're asleep."
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"Roads go ever ever onUnder cloud and under starYet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar.Eyes that fire and sword have seenAnd horror in the halls of stoneLook at last on meadows greenAnd trees and hills they long have known."
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"The president of General Motors was in a foul humor."
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"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
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"It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered."
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"I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once."
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"The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots."
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"Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people."
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"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."
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"On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside plastered bars of light between the slats of the blinds. Not a sound in the village. Down below, on the sidewalk, no one. This spreading silence increased the tranquility of things. In the distance, the caulkers' hammers tamped the hulls, and a heavy breeze brought the smell of tar."
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"What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
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"The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat differently than any other culture has ever been, but ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore - "I'm easy; I'll eat anything - can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list."
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"My name is Zia Rashid."
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"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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"All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in one minute of the day. I love you so much there is no pleasure in it. Nothing but torment. Because if I could dilute what I feel for you to the millionth part, it would still be enough to kill you. And even if it drives me mad, I would rather see you live in the arms of that cold, soulless bastard than die in mine," Merripen said to Win."
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