Memorable Quotations: American Novelists of the Past

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of famous American novelists of the past, including Henry Brooks Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Dorothy Dodds Baker, James Baldwin, Djuna Barnes, Saul Bellow, Heywood Broun, Pearl S. Buck, Truman Capote, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Kate Chopin, James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, John Kenneth Galbraith, Zona Gale, Martha Gellhorn, Ellen Glasgow, Elizabeth Hardwick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, William Dean Howells, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack Kerouac, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Herman Melville, Alice Duer Miller, Arthur Miller, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Anais Nin, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Ayn Rand, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Laura Riding, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Judith Rossner, Carl Sandburg, George Santayana, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Styron, Booth Tarkington, Mark Twain, Jessamyn West, Edith Wharton, Tennessee Williams, and Thomas Wolfe.