Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist seen single sum thinking total words
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Isaac Singer
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Our major exports are books and children, both of which we produce in abundance. The children are Laurence, Joanne, Sarah and Carry. Shirley Jackson
american-novelist dreams people
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. Dorothy Gilman
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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please? James Dickey
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Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. Russell Hoban
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The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.
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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.
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I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. Jonathan Franzen
american-novelist correct
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. Patricia Highsmith
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I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.
american-novelist talks
He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist conquers
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! Sholem Asch
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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 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.
american-novelist fearful hardly judge judgment lest
Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath. Paul Williams
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I taught more school, had two more sons and then in 1970 I wrote a short story and sent it to a national contest, where I won 60th prize out of 100. Judith Guest
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I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
american-novelist carry fiction good larger novel realness special true
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
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 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. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist blessed forgotten
He was blessed to have forgotten his binoculars.
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He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
american-novelist befriend class exercise gave teacher
He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since. John Hawkes
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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
american-novelist considered mother par press visit
Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
american-novelist five housewife second supported three time took
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.