Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist education knowledge
Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do. Jim Rice
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
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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
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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
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I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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. Rick Moody
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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.
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The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.
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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
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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
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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.
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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow
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It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. Jeffrey Eugenides
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The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
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At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.
american-novelist bad good morality
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
american-novelist built memory surprising unnoticed
It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. Barbara Kingsolver
american-novelist held left pain realities
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed. Rachel Field
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There's also a bit of family echo in the character of Harriet. Harriet is kind of a recurring state of mind in my mother's side of the family.
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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
american-novelist begun man simply
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. Phillips Brooks
american-novelist excellent fought good stands
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. Thornton Wilder