"I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music."

-- James Ellroy

#Novelists Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Crime Quotes

“If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come â€” sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected â€” and it balances.”
“Some syllables are swords.”

Source : Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.112
“Weeping must not hinder worship.”
“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.”
“A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.”
“The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.”
“In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness”
“I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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