Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Edmond de Goncourt

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Louisa May Alcott

I could have been a great many things.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

David Miliband

Everything about my politics has been about the future

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Ben Vereen

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

Dean Koontz

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

Artie Shaw

Any more would have been less.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything has been something before.