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american-novelist
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. Vicki Baum
american-novelist cold north success
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
american-novelist earth life
But this is life on earth, you can't have everything. William Goldman
american-novelist
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.
american-novelist caught recovered seldom though work
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. William Gaddis
american-novelist follows human left man
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
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For me, writing something down was the only road out. Anne Tyler
american-novelist characters imaginary offer surprised
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
american-novelist cover fairly form notebook passages sends tim
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist human known
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
american-novelist opponents tried vilify
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. Orhan Pamuk
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
american-novelist embarrass guy mac sort
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? Tom Clancy
american-novelist groucho meant people realize wicked
The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it. Sidney Sheldon
american-novelist art
What is art but a way of seeing? Saul Bellow
american-novelist anywhere book guess imprisoned male reaction second
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
american-novelist extremely
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.
american-novelist biography discovery fiction performance requires wants whereas
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. Edmund White
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 builds incredible torn
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. Faith Baldwin
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And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. William Styron
american-novelist great leave lives several slightly
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
american-novelist believe
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all. Dalton Trumbo
american-novelist anybody bigger town
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
american-novelist ask people precisely suggested terry
I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist fulfilling heard imagine lives mean writer
I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
american-novelist hook maybe
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
american-novelist amusement included jokes mysteries
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
american-novelist begins breakup gabriel greater happen interest places reveal terry
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
american-novelist claiming easier memoirs tend truth
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
american-novelist good
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
american-novelist decided faith human less nature
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
american-novelist believed closer truth
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.