Novelists

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Louisa May Alcott

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

Jane Austen

“Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

Pearl S. Buck

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”

William S. Burroughs

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing”

Truman Capote

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”

Cervantes

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

John Dos Passos

“The mind cannot support moral chaos for long.
Men are under as strong a compulsion
to invent an ethical setting for their behavior
as spiders are to weave themeselves webs.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”

“I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

William Faulkner

“Unless you’re ashamed of yourself
now and then, you’re not honest.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Easy reading is damn hard writing”

Joseph Heller

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them”

Ernest Hemingway

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

Victor Hugo

“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

James Joyce

“Better pass boldly into that other world,
in the full glory of some passion,
than fade and wither dismally with age”

Franz Kafka

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

Jack Kerouac

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones that are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles…”

Machiavelli

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

Herman Melville

“But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”

Henry Miller

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
Joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

Toni Morrison

“Love is or it ain’t.
Thin love ain’t no love at all.”

Anais Nin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

George Orwell

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

Ayn Rand

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death”

J. D. Salinger

“Who wants flowers when you’re dead?
Nobody.”

Mary Shelley

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”

John Steinbeck

“Power does not corrupt. fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power”

Hunter S. Thompson

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity
to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

Leo Tolstoy

“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”

Thomas Wolfe

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

Virginia Woolf

“Language is wine upon the lips”