Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist marriage
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
american-novelist animals best
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
american-novelist
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
american-novelist among beings decide fools human life moment whether
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
american-novelist time
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe
american-novelist saves
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
american-novelist passed practiced
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
american-novelist create darkness echo hunger life matter send wait words
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. Richard Wright
american-novelist built copied men realities simply
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
american-novelist
I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.
american-novelist division found good happy issues left number shape
The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.
american-novelist flies leaves shadow time
Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne
american-novelist purpose
I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose. Paul Williams
american-novelist few hitchcock requests
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake. Patricia Highsmith
american-novelist
Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
american-novelist days five four hours seven work
I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
american-novelist hope jersey move operate policeman
I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
american-novelist car takes weeks
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
american-novelist book conception experience god
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. Orhan Pamuk
american-novelist correct
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
american-novelist difference grave rut
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. Ellen Glasgow
american-novelist fact few mention public somebody unwise versions
I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. Jonathan Franzen
american-novelist fiction income written
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. Herman Wouk
american-novelist cent danger fools great people per rest
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
american-novelist buy instant last lose return wrong
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. Judith Krantz
american-novelist came
On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
american-novelist job people
One of the most interesting things about this job is encountering the perceptions people have of me. I'm the person I've always been.
american-novelist calls certain filmmaking phone says wisdom wish
I wish we could have used more than we used, but there is a certain conventional wisdom about filmmaking that says that long phone calls are taboo. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist fact fiction interest party people press
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
american-novelist form
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. Don DeLillo
american-novelist carry fiction good larger novel realness special true
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
american-novelist fearful hardly judge judgment lest
Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath.