Frank Yerby Quotes

#1. There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

Frank Yerby

#2. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes De Mille

#3. A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Frank Yerby

#5. Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Frank Yerby

#6. About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Yerby

#7. Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

Frank Yerby

#8. Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Live your life until love is found Or love's gonna get you down

Mika.

#10. Bookstores are temples and stories are my prayers.

Jaye Wells

#11. When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

Frank Yerby

#12. The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

Frank Yerby

#13. I can't rewrite history.

Pattie Boyd

#14. It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

Frank Yerby

#15. I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger.

Franck Ribery

#16. He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

Charles Bukowski

#17. I have what makes you moan. What's going to make those thighs open wide. I've got it right here and you're fucking dying for it.

Tessa Bailey

#18. The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. From where they stood, they could see the castle.

Frank Yerby

#20. We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

Subcomandante Marcos

#21. They were just boys. Take away the band, the lights, the fame, and the screaming girls, and they were just boys, chosen for us to obsess over.

Goldy Moldavsky

#22. All you need to say to me
All you need to say to me
Is call (call)
And I'll be curled on the floor
Hiding out from it all
And I won't take any other call

Sara Quin