Quotes about american-author
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
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What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. Harry Mathews
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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
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I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
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I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
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The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to. Paula Danziger
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There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. Peter Sellers
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off. Nancy Friday
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. Natalie Clifford Barney
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I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them. Nora Roberts
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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron
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Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents. Edward Hoagland
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Fletcher Knebel
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I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Robert Fitzgerald
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow. Helen Keller
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Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it. Michael Chabon
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain
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We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough. Keith Miller
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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey
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If the Tate premises, ladies and gentlemen, did not symbolize the establishment to Charles Manson, no residence, no premises, ever would. Vincent Bugliosi
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I always figure I can have the Midwest one way or the other. Because it's my background, it ought to be a voice that comes easily.
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He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. Richard Schickel
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau