Grace Novel Quotes

#1. Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?

Anthony Doerr

#2. The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man's quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

Benjamin Percy

#3. There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.

David Hewson

#4. I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but it grew beyond the category.

Grace Lin

#5. Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.

Michael Cera

#6. Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling

Pat McQuaid

#7. The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

George Steiner

#8. In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

Nancy Willard

#9. I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

Garry Disher

#10. Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality."

Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows

Grace Willows

#11. When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Norman Mailer

#12. If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#13. Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

Adam Grant

#14. The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

Elizabeth Scott

#15. I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Grace Paley

#16. I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

Rachel Hunter

#17. It is said you are the woman who holds all of London in the palm of her hand."

"Perhaps not all of London, Your Grace, but a fortunate few have indeed felt the palm of my hand.

Joanna Shupe

#18. David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them

Harry Redknapp

#19. The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.

Ron Carlson