Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist certainly decide knowing life necessary novel
Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience. Judith Krantz
american-novelist education knowledge
Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do. Jim Rice
american-novelist equal giving lies people time vigilant weight
I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
american-novelist relate relation thinking
I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people. Judith Guest
american-novelist border concerned reality struggles
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker. Ana Castillo
american-novelist bothered cannot deal father great history past present teach wasted
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. Russell Hoban
american-novelist bad except god novelist type
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. John Barth
american-novelist finding putting somehow
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
american-novelist came found guy house knocked letter lived somehow
I just got a letter from a guy in Japan. One of them somehow found out where I lived one day and came up to my house and knocked on my door. Tom Verlaine
american-novelist conceiving imagination
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
american-novelist fiction reduced single
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. Scott Turow
american-novelist books-and-reading consuming inside living nature
I haven't always done things this way. It's the nature of the two books. They have been so consuming that I end up living inside them. Caleb Carr
american-novelist city earliest eight forth move seemed ten until york
In my earliest childhood, we seemed to move back and forth between New York City and Connecticut until I was about eight or ten years old. John Hawkes
american-novelist estate knew work
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.
american-novelist close foremost language music paragraphs sounds stay sure trying
I'm trying to stay close to language first and foremost and make sure that the paragraphs sing, that it sounds like music to me. Rick Moody
american-novelist
I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. Robert Stone
american-novelist banned book economic edition fact huge proud quite risk
The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored. Orhan Pamuk
american-novelist cannot eyes fight fighting greatest smoke
The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes. Mark Helprin
american-novelist book exhausted good leave lives reading several slightly
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. William Styron
american-novelist character creating trick values
The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them. Donna Tartt
american-novelist start truly wicked
All things truly wicked start from an innocence. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist change movement
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow
american-novelist beautiful empty room submitted version york
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. Edmund White
american-novelist cluttered overused perfectly simple thoughts
You don't have these perfectly transparent, simple thoughts. You have thoughts that are all cluttered up, like overused bookshelves.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
american-novelist began certainly envy mocked poetry poets since
Once I started to write prose, I certainly did not envy the poets. I've mocked poets and poetry ever since I began writing fiction.
american-novelist becomes interested prose recognized
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
american-novelist fighting fine worth
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
american-novelist biggest bush clinton exporter far
The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan. Andrew Niccol
american-novelist might
It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
american-novelist bumps instinct knots mending order perfect prose split took until
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. David Leavitt
american-novelist apparent both issue lies longer quest truth
No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
american-novelist easier hard life
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.