Action Quote by Edward Abbey

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

— Paul Watson

We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political…

— John Burnside

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their…

— Sarah MacLean

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

— Wilbur Smith

“In books, the hero was gone after the big blowup. He didn’t stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the…

— Charlaine Harris

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

— Anthony Trollope

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are…

— Maeve Binchy

Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really…

— Graham Greene

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

“Giving up is the naysayer within us proclaiming that heroes are the stuff of fiction and the thought of us ever being one falls…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

— William Nicholson