Frank Yerby famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.
-- Frank Yerby

#Maturity #Needs #Lied
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.
-- Frank Yerby

#Writing #Cutting #Knives
When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.
-- Frank Yerby

#Trouble #Over It
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
-- Frank Yerby

#Death #Men
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
-- Frank Yerby

#Rivers #Yellow #New Orleans
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.
-- Frank Yerby

#Wall #Inspiration #Believe
The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.
-- Frank Yerby

#Simple #Men #Years

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.
As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.
On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.
But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.
The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
This means nothing,â€ she said. â€œLess than nothing,â€ he lied. â€œIâ€™ll hate myself later.â€ â€œI hate myself now.

Frank Yerby famous quotes

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