Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Philip Larkin

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Frank Norris

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Jan Egeland

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

Joe Heim

I think that has to do with the intensity issue. The voting was only 21 percent of the eligible voters. The ?yes' side was more invested, so more likely to show up as voters. They wanted to make a statement. The ?no' side was less organized. Eighty percent of the people didn't vote.

F. Stone

Eighty one out of the 99 lots are owned by the project.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.