Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Erich Maria Remarque

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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.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Live
  • Teach
  • Option

• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • English
  • Language
  • Novels

• 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.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Books
  • Novels

• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Novels

• That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Conflict

• When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mystery
  • Novels
  • Dramas

• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• 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.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Parents

• I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Read
  • Novels
  • RAND

• I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Reality
  • Understand
  • Novels

• 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.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Fire
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Matter

• Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Freedom
  • Receive
  • The Lord

• 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Why
  • Honor
  • Greater

• 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.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Person
  • Novels

• Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Novels

• When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • English
  • Teenager
  • Emotions

• There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

  

  Charles Pierce
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Desire

• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Unique
  • League

• Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Novels
  • Receive
  • Modesty