Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist passed practiced
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. Louis Auchincloss
american-novelist dictate happy nature truth
The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved. Sue Grafton
american-novelist invented though
Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
american-novelist kinsey mind movies
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
american-novelist list nearly related sat tied until
At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.
american-novelist high men wearing
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
american-novelist changed faster kinsey learns older passed reader sure twelve
I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
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 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. Thornton Wilder
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.
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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 purpose several
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. Irwin Shaw
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