Books Quote by Thomas Hardy

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig

“The throb of life is love. Without it, humans are bodies of bones clad with skin”

— Tirukkural: 80 Tiruvalluvar

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull,…

— Herman Melville

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

“A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.”

— Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett

“He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.”

— V. Theia

“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who…

— Mary Stewart Atwell

“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”

— Carl Adamshick

“Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.”

— Theodor Storm

“To write a novel, you need an iron butt.”

— Richard M. Nixon

“The granularity of bones in a body. A forest with galaxies of moss.”

— Sneha Subramanian Kanta