Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist devices material strategies uses
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. Rick Moody
american-novelist constantly education england except great moved
My education was constantly interrupted. I moved around a great deal, had no real sense of home, except for the New England landscape. John Hawkes
american-novelist best left
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. Irwin Shaw
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
american-novelist filled last though time
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith
american-novelist whether
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach
american-novelist atom rather sleepy
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Jack London
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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. Jonathan Franzen
american-novelist gives man
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. Djuna Barnes
american-novelist eating form people
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. Don DeLillo
american-novelist bad good immoral moral
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway
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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
american-novelist carried good knew love spot
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure. Harry Crews
american-novelist dream home southern walking
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. Harper Lee
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow. Aaron Allston
american-novelist
The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
american-novelist trade
Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
american-novelist
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
american-novelist government people
The government serves the people - not vice-versa.
american-novelist four hours
At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less. Anne Tyler
american-novelist several tons
Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people. James Agee
american-novelist art built temple words
The temple of art is built in words.
american-novelist quit reading until
Until I quit writing and I don't know when that will be, I will always be reading something that has to do with what I'm working on. Dee Brown
american-novelist dream dreams given power work
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
american-novelist characters dramatic gets zone
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist lived totally town
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
american-novelist fiction income written
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. Herman Wouk
american-novelist marriage
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
american-novelist animals best
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
american-novelist among beings decide fools human life moment whether
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
american-novelist time
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe
american-novelist saves
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.