Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist few hitchcock requests
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake. Patricia Highsmith
american-novelist
Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
american-novelist days five four hours seven work
I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
american-novelist hope jersey move operate policeman
I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
american-novelist car takes weeks
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
american-novelist somehow typical
I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
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 difference grave rut
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. Ellen Glasgow
american-novelist believe life supposed
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. Gloria Naylor
american-novelist bad good morality
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist family inventing needed perhaps tried
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. Jeffrey Eugenides
american-novelist given ideas power suffer
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. Richard Bach
american-novelist apparent becomes deepening finding finds job outset pattern rarely sharpening understanding
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. Diane Johnson
american-novelist nest ruin stepped tall telling
As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung. John Hawkes
american-novelist andy genius
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. Gore Vidal
american-novelist book certain hum instant snapped stop
There was a certain hum that would be generated by the book when I was writing well; I'd stop working the instant that hum snapped off. Edmund White
american-novelist baker cheek columns light poet russell steady tongue verse writes
Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
american-novelist rain sky
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike
american-novelist elections figured hope improve point policy voters win
At some point they figured out that you can win elections with a pro-European policy because the voters hope this will improve their lives. Orhan Pamuk
american-novelist aside malaria recall
Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests. Serge Lang
american-novelist capacity confirm courage
Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined. Leo Rosten
american-novelist destroyed man men
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
american-novelist briefcase law-and-lawyers lawyer men steal thousand
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. Mario Puzo
american-novelist book books hope pay saved somebody
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. Amy Tan
american-novelist certain decision
You're certain to get a decision in a trial. John Barth
american-novelist exciting
This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
american-novelist held left pain realities
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed. Rachel Field
american-novelist brightest obsessed warm women
It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.
american-novelist exclusive pride states took united
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
american-novelist behind believe left less soon
Actually SOON has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist bridge grow jump sure wings
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down. Danielle Steel
american-novelist work
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
american-novelist
's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling. Jonathan Franzen