Quotes By Taylor Caldwell

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

My dreams are all follies.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

I often reread books I have written.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.