"Someone ought to write a novel about me,"

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Writing Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.”
“Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever”

Source : Tobias Wolff (1989). “This boy's life”
“The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.56, Open Road Media
“Pull over to the side of your journey and look how far you've come”
“No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.”
“When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.”
“Shut your eyes and see.”

Source : James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.67, eBookIt.com

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