John Phillips Marquand Quotes
"His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son."
- John Phillips Marquand
(Related: Father, Son, Years)
"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry."
- John Phillips Marquand
(Related: Ancestry, Generations)
"There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years."
- John Phillips Marquand
(Related: Life, Heart, Years)
"When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant."
- John Phillips Marquand
(Related: Time, Life, Past, Present, Writing)