Novelists Quotes
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I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
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The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
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The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
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Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
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A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
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I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.
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I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over.
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I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
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Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
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Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
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Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
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Every child has the capacity to be everything.
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I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.
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