Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
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With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper
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Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
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There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
american-novelist destroyed man
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist behavior best enter extremely human life nuances realm
Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior. Robert Ludlum
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. Earl Derr Biggers
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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. Katherine Dunn
american-novelist explore giving haunted notion outside responsibility second source structure
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
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You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. Tom Verlaine
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The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment. Serge Lang
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
american-novelist love means
Love means never having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal
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 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
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
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I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.
american-novelist female male rebuke
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. Booth Tarkington
american-novelist cherish cushion fine
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
american-novelist hard life
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow
american-novelist purpose several
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. Irwin Shaw
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With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. Louis Auchincloss
american-novelist dictate happy nature truth
The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.
american-novelist invented though
Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
american-novelist kinsey mind movies
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
american-novelist list nearly related sat tied until
At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
american-novelist changed faster kinsey learns older passed reader sure twelve
I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.