Frank Yerby Quotes

To dreamers, Truth is an unlovely thing. - Frank Yerby quote.

To dreamers, Truth is an unlovely thing.
— Frank Yerby Judas, My Brother

dreams

There's no pain equal to that of being forced to think.
— Frank Yerby Goat Song: A Novel of Ancient Greece

pain

Greatness has nothing to do with goodness—or very little. - Frank Yerby quote.

Greatness has nothing to do with goodness—or very little.
— Frank Yerby Goat Song: A Novel of Ancient Greece

greatness Goodness

An American Negro isn't a man — he's a walking defense mechanism. - Frank Yerby quote.

An American Negro isn't a man — he's a walking defense mechanism.
— Frank Yerby

civil rights

Life commences not with birth, but with the onslaught of awareness.
— Frank Yerby Judas, My Brother

awareness

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

maturity

Life puts no greater burdens upon a man than the necessity of making decisions. - Frank Yerby quote.

Life puts no greater burdens upon a man than the necessity of making decisions.
— Frank Yerby Judas, My Brother

decision-making

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. - Frank Yerby quote.

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen.
— Frank Yerby The New York Times Book Review

editors

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick: only amateurs believe in inspiration. - Frank Yerby quote.

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick: only amateurs believe in inspiration.
— Frank Yerby in The New York Times

novels

For I suspect that maturity's reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything, when we can accept, or at least endure, truth's atrociously appalling ugliness!
— Frank Yerby The Girl From Storyville

maturity

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