Frank Yerby Professions : Novelist Born : September 5, 1916 Died : November 29, 1991 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Frank Yerby Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything. Frank Yerby lied maturity needs 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 knives cutting writing Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. Frank Yerby wall inspiration believe Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time. Frank Yerby men death 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 simple men years When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble. Frank Yerby over-it trouble 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 new-orleans sea rivers From where they stood, they could see the castle. Frank Yerby stood castle where see There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. Frank Yerby sweep sky wind Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
