Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist eminent figures opposite questions raised reality rhetoric
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.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. Earl Derr Biggers
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The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
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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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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. Katherine Dunn
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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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Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell
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Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
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Love means never having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal
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She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand. Saul Bellow
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
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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
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People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. Jerry B. Jenkins
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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
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
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I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.
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.
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One must always keep one's government under control.