Top 8 National Book Award For Fiction Quotes
#1. Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#2. I gasped. I'd seen photographs people had taken from this point above the river. But no picture captures a vista better than one's own eyes.
Patrick Dobson
#3. It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
Owen Hart
#4. The novel remains for me one of the few forms ... where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.
John Cheever
#6. I want to mark you, and I want to own you. I want to fucking live inside you.
Annabel Joseph
#7. Reading fiction - excerpts from National Book Award finalists, winners of the Pen/O. Henry Prize for short stories, or even Amazon bestsellers - has been shown to enhance theory of mind:
Margaret Heffernan
#8. I have nothing but respect for you
and not much of that.
Groucho Marx
