Frank Yerby Quotes
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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.
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When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.
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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.
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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.
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Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.
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Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
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Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.
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