Quotes about american-novelist
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.
american-novelist
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.
american-novelist passed practiced
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
american-novelist itself
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. Rick Moody
american-novelist man time wants
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. Sloan Wilson
american-novelist excellent fought good stands
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
american-novelist human
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
american-novelist life
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that. Bernard Malamud
american-novelist characters points singular third whose
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
american-novelist
Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.
american-novelist forcing particular stay whatever
But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
american-novelist crowd demands point
But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
american-novelist understanding
Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
american-novelist enter head knows narrator time universal
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
american-novelist guard
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
american-novelist easiest main major select writers
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
american-novelist people
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist cent danger fools great people per rest
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
american-novelist buy instant last lose return wrong
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.
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.
american-novelist government
One must always keep one's government under control.
american-novelist devices material strategies uses
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
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 comics earliest family heading newspaper straight
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.
american-novelist ireland year
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.