"Martin Eden" Quotes

I am not a writer, but I have written.

I want to find out for myself what is and what is not.

I have no patience with such men. They do not interest me. I am a lover of life, and I cannot take seriously such men.

But the man merely laughed. It was a laugh with a sob in it, and it was a sob with a laugh in it.

I do not want to be a hackneyed writer—cheap, obvious, and second-hand.

I do not want to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon.

I am too busy being happy, and I get a lot of happiness out of my work.

I have been called a materialist. I am a materialist. The people who have been so callin' me have been unkind. They have called me a 'materialist' because I have denied the existence of the soul.

I should like to write a novel. I think I can do it. I have no money and I don't expect to have. I'm going to write a novel and live on the royalties.

I want to be a writer, and I want to be a good one.