Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist good
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
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I quickly discovered that I wrote best when I had an audience to read out loud to soon after the completion of my latest, hottest pages. Edmund White
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I read newspapers, textbooks on crime. I talk to private investigators, police officers, jail administrators, doctors, lawyers, career criminals. Sue Grafton
american-novelist characters instead left
In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did. Jerry B. Jenkins
american-novelist people
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
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In policing science, I favor applying the norms of science, which require scientists to answer criticisms of their works openly and publicly. Serge Lang
american-novelist few jobs knew possible time
Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married. John Hawkes
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 bits felt nest strangely straw worked
But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.
american-novelist love sitting smoking travel
But I love to travel with my partner, reading, sitting in the garden, smoking dope, and going to movies. Not necessarily in that order. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist life moment truly
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
american-novelist
I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.
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 becomes interested prose recognized
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
american-novelist fighting fine worth
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist biggest bush clinton exporter far
The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan. Andrew Niccol
american-novelist apparent both issue lies longer quest truth
No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
american-novelist easier hard life
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow
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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.
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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 bad except god novelist type
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
american-novelist enjoy
If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. Leo Rosten
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In the last decade, Peter Duesberg has been one of those who have continued to raise questions about the drug hypothesis seriously.
american-novelist
I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
american-novelist began certainly envy mocked poetry poets since
Once I started to write prose, I certainly did not envy the poets. I've mocked poets and poetry ever since I began writing fiction.
american-novelist
I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. Robert Stone
american-novelist close foremost language music paragraphs sounds stay sure trying
I'm trying to stay close to language first and foremost and make sure that the paragraphs sing, that it sounds like music to me. Rick Moody
american-novelist relate relation thinking
I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people. Judith Guest
american-novelist border concerned reality struggles
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker. Ana Castillo
american-novelist bothered cannot deal father great history past present teach wasted
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. Russell Hoban
american-novelist estate knew work
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.