Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist love
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal. Mark Helprin
american-novelist giving reader
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away. Mary Grandpre
american-novelist blessed forgotten
He was blessed to have forgotten his binoculars.
american-novelist children fathers hearts turn
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
american-novelist befriend class exercise gave teacher
He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since. John Hawkes
american-novelist talks
He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist calls certain filmmaking phone says wisdom wish
I wish we could have used more than we used, but there is a certain conventional wisdom about filmmaking that says that long phone calls are taboo. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist singer
My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
american-novelist either last seeing though
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Betty Smith
american-novelist earth either filled last seeing though time
Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
american-novelist
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please? James Dickey
american-novelist equal giving lies people time vigilant weight
I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
american-novelist national prize sent short sons taught won wrote
I taught more school, had two more sons and then in 1970 I wrote a short story and sent it to a national contest, where I won 60th prize out of 100. Judith Guest
american-novelist seen single sum thinking total words
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Isaac Singer
american-novelist books both children exports major produce sarah
Our major exports are books and children, both of which we produce in abundance. The children are Laurence, Joanne, Sarah and Carry. Shirley Jackson
american-novelist dreams people
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. Dorothy Gilman
american-novelist
I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
american-novelist effort human language speak
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. Russell Hoban
american-novelist call fits grew label people quite southern though writer
People always want to call me a Southern writer but though I grew up in the South, I don't feel that the label quite fits my work. Donna Tartt
american-novelist fact fiction interest party people press
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
american-novelist form
For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. Don DeLillo
american-novelist division found good happy issues left number shape
The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.
american-novelist somehow typical
I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
american-novelist correct
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. Patricia Highsmith
american-novelist fact few mention public somebody unwise versions
I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. Jonathan Franzen
american-novelist broke healing memory mostly stroll terry
Well, Terry and I broke up 10 years ago. So the healing that was going to happen, happened. So mostly this was a stroll down memory lane.
american-novelist education knowledge matter private school
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. Lillian Smith
american-novelist man time wants
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long. Sloan Wilson
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 itself
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. Rick Moody
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.