Novelist quotes

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The Sun does not ever give, almost all choose to take from it selfishly.

- Dune

In a business like this, there are times when you need to change as the situation demands. I switch my personality depending on how I view things.

- Aozaki Touko

I am content with just being a flower, blooming and withering away… that’s all I ever needed.

- Dune

There are two ways to escape: escape without a purpose, and escape with a purpose. I call the former "floating", and the latter "flight". You are the only one that decides which of the two your view of the world from on high was. But you don't choose these paths because of the weight on your soul. We don't choose the path we take because of the sins we carry. But we carry our sins on the path we choose.

- Aozaki Touko

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart.

- Mark Twain

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in chance and trust his luck.

- Erich Maria Remarque

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

- John Steinbeck

When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

- Paulo Coelho

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

- Joyce Carol Oates

There is nothing ordinary about reality.

- Joyce Carol Oates

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

- Joyce Carol Oates

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Loneliness is dangerous because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

- Joyce Carol Oates

I never change, I simply become more myself.

- Joyce Carol Oates

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

- Joyce Carol Oates

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

- Joyce Carol Oates