Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Waters

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

Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

Wole Soyinka

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Milan Kundera

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Marcel Proust

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Jose Saramago

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Khaled Hosseini

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Nelson DeMille

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Philip Levine

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Lennart Johansson

I think it's a good idea. They have the same culture, understand each other and travelling is easy between countries. So why not?

Rob Stutzman

has been linked to the gym culture for much of his life.

Stephen Rodrick

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Maria Gilsenan

Here in Shanghai, it is such a drinking culture that people need to do something else.

Chris Byrne

Historically, toys have always reflected our culture at any particular point in time, ... Today we live in a high-tech world, where technology is being used by kids even at a very young age. Toymakers are responding to that trend.

Al Horford

I think the culture is always going to be a football culture, as we well know. But I think this definitely impacts the way people are going to start looking at us.

Bruce Hyde

Lake Champlain is the most under-marketed gem of a resource. First and foremost I want to use this as an opportunity to promote the history, culture and recreation of Lake Champlain.

Bill Daly

We take this seriously. The pro gambling culture is something we educate our players about extensively.

Aminatta Forna

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

Keith Bulluck

He kind of set the tone for the way he wants his season to go. I don't know if he responded to me or to himself. But whatever it was, I got what I wanted from him.

Keith Bulluck

He kind of set the tone for the way he wants his season to go,

Tyler Jewell

He kind of passed the Olympic torch to me.

Robert Sanchez

He killed everyone with kindness at all times.

Bunnie Gleason

He just kind of takes it as it is, and rolls with the punches. He's very tough.

Maureen Osolnik

There are a lot of species out there we didn't get anything on. We look at it kind of as an ongoing process. We will be doing this again.

Samantha Lutz

Her spark is kind of like a light for the team.