Frank Yerby quotes

Frank Yerby quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.”
-- Frank Yerby

Source : Frank Yerby (1972). “The girl from Storyville”

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“It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.”
-- Frank Yerby

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“When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.”
-- Frank Yerby

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“Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.”
-- Frank Yerby

Source : Frank Yerby (1967). “Goat song: a novel of ancient Greece”

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“About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.”
-- Frank Yerby

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“Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.”
-- Frank Yerby

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“The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.”
-- Frank Yerby

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