Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
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Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
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There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
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Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'
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The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
