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historian novelist wants
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did. Michael Korda
historian
Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that. Lee Hazlewood
historian feels nobody-knows
I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
historians human prefer
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson
novelist
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'. Sarah Waters
novelist
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is. John Updike
novelists exciting
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum. Nelson DeMille
novelists
Freud was just a novelist. Peter Ackroyd
novelists poet copyright
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright Beth Henley
novelist plots several
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always. Richard Flanagan
novelists perpetual
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. Simon Mawer
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
novelists philip sex
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. Ruth Rendell
wants win
He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear. Jason Bay
wants
He wants to play. But I'm just going to give him a day break. Ron Gardenhire
wants worry
He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come. Ray Allen
wants
He wants this to be the coming-out party. Paul Shefrin
wants
He is very, very competitive and wants to win.
wants
I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself. Sam Claflin
wants whatever
Whatever he wants to do. That's how I feel about it. Steven Spielberg
wants
I think we will get something done long-term. We are going to keep him here. Tay wants that, I want that and Duffy wants that. We'll get something done. Joe Dumars
wants
He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.