D. M. Thomas Quotes

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

- C. S. Lewis

Novelist

· Ireland

• Lord
• Pain

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

- Edith Wharton

Novelist

· United

• Destruction
• Meaning

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can’t I escape and learn something?

- Christopher Bollen

Novelist

· USA

• Escapism

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

- Mary Wesley

Novelist

· United Kingdom

• Teaching
• Writing

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

- 1st Baron Lytton

Novelist

· England

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

- John Irving

Novelist

• Adults

A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.

- Anne Lamott

Novelist

· USA

• Love
• Marriage

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Novelist

· Russia

• Ideas

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

- Alice Hoffman

Novelist

· USA

• Enough
• Movement
• Strong

I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

- Andre Dubus

Novelist

· USA

• Air
• Campaigns
• Land