Quotes about american-novelist
american-novelist sit trouble women
Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. Ellen Glasgow
american-novelist lime twig
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
american-novelist call chiefs gentleman joint merely scared
That gentleman will call the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I think they're scared of him. They're merely professional killers; he's in advertising! Robert Ludlum
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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
american-novelist breaks broken stronger
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
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What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America. Rick Moody
american-novelist genre
What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
american-novelist dramatic offer stories
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo
american-novelist characters easiest simply speaking
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
american-novelist good
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
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I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. Robert Stone
american-novelist city earliest eight forth move seemed ten until york
In my earliest childhood, we seemed to move back and forth between New York City and Connecticut until I was about eight or ten years old. John Hawkes
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.
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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 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.
american-novelist might
It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. David Leavitt
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.
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. John Barth
american-novelist enjoy
If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. Leo Rosten
american-novelist continued hypothesis last peter questions raise
In the last decade, Peter Duesberg has been one of those who have continued to raise questions about the drug hypothesis seriously. Serge Lang
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.
american-novelist answer applying criticisms favor norms openly policing require scientists works
In policing science, I favor applying the norms of science, which require scientists to answer criticisms of their works openly and publicly.
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.
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. Edmund White
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 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 finding putting somehow
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.