Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
american-novelist
You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. Tom Verlaine
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
american-novelist blocked happened ice period purple storm wrote
What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America. Rick Moody
american-novelist genre
What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
american-novelist dramatic offer stories
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo
american-novelist characters easiest simply speaking
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
american-novelist broke healing memory mostly stroll terry
Well, Terry and I broke up 10 years ago. So the healing that was going to happen, happened. So mostly this was a stroll down memory lane. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist education knowledge matter private school
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. Lillian Smith
american-novelist difference grave rut
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. Ellen Glasgow
american-novelist love means
Love means never having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal
american-novelist people
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. Jerry B. Jenkins
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. Thornton Wilder
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 devices material strategies uses
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
american-novelist constantly education england except great moved
My education was constantly interrupted. I moved around a great deal, had no real sense of home, except for the New England landscape. John Hawkes
american-novelist comics earliest family heading newspaper straight
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
american-novelist ireland year
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
american-novelist astronauts difficult finding fossil job missions robotic tough
Fossil finding will be a very difficult job on Mars. I don't think robotic missions will do it. It will take astronauts and even then it will be a tough job. Jim Rice
american-novelist
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
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 love
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal. Mark Helprin
american-novelist giving reader
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away. Mary Grandpre
american-novelist blessed forgotten
He was blessed to have forgotten his binoculars.
american-novelist children fathers hearts turn
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
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.
american-novelist blond call dyed suicide
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand. Saul Bellow
american-novelist few jobs knew possible time
Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married.
american-novelist bits felt nest strangely straw worked
But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different. Edmund White
american-novelist life moment truly
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.