Memorable Quotations: 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 great novelists of the past: Henry Brooks Adams, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Louisa May Alcott, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Louis Aragon, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Djuna Barnes, J. M. Barrie, Georges Bataille, Vicki Baum, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Sir Max Beerbohm, Brendan Behan, Saul Bellow, Arnold Bennett, Georges Bernanos, Elizabeth Bowen, Hermann Broch, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Pearl S. Buck, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Taylor Caldwell, Albert Camus, Angela Carter, Willa Cather, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Raymond Chandler, John Cheever, G. K. Chesterton, Kate Chopin, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Robertson Davies, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marguerite Duras, Lawrence Durrell, George Eliot, Edna Ferber, Henry Fielding, E. M. Forster, Janet Frame, Anatole France, Zona Gale, Elizabeth Gaskell, Martha Gellhorn, Jean Genet, Andre Gide, Ellen Glasgow, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, William Golding, Remy de Gourmont, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Heller, Victor Hugo, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Koestler, Jerzy Kosinski, D. H. Lawrence, Stanislaw Lem, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Herman Melville, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Howard Nemerov, Anais Nin, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, Vance Palmer, Boris Pasternak, Cesare Pavese, Thomas Love Peacock, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Marcel Proust, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Roux, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Vita Sackville-West, Marquis de Sade, Francoise Sagan, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, George Sand, George Santayana, Friedrich Schlegel, Sir Walter Scott, George Bernard Shaw, Muriel Spark, Madame de Stael, Stendhal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Styron, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Lionel Trilling, Anthony Trollope, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Jessamyn West, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.