“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.” KnowsWritingFirstsTwoBookCharacterThreeLiteratureLeftBitsFourMonthsLateLovelyToo LatePlotLeft OutNew BooksLovely ThingsBefore It's Too Late Author:Terry Pratchett
“The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.” LooksLiteratureDifferencesFourClownAmbulanceChasers Author:Chris Matthews
“Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.” ThinkingHardDoneStoriesJobsLiteratureNovelRecordsFourMessShort StoryPermissionGood JobRequest Author:Leslie Charteris
“I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.” YearsLiteratureNumbersFourPhonesStudiosAddressesFour YearsApartmentPhone Numbers Author:Marilyn Hacker
“When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.” WritingChildrenLiteratureFictionFourNeededComfortableLegsGenreHeightChairsLength Author:Mark Haddon
“Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.” MayLightLiteratureFourCornersCobwebs Author:Nellie L. McClung
“I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.” YearsBelievePurposeLiteratureFourEffectsFour Years Author:Miguel Syjuco
“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” NeedsYearsReasonBodyLightLastsLiteratureTermFiveFourHundredSlaveryTradeSlaveContactJustifySlave Trade Author:Chinua Achebe
“A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.” WayWritingYearsLiteratureKnowingFourWrittenYouthThousandCuriousThousand YearsMaidensSenility Author:John Barth
“I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.” YearsI CanLiteratureFourFour YearsAmerican LiteraturePostmodernDoctorates Author:Kate Atkinson
“The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.” PeopleWritingYearsLooksBookAgeLiteratureTalkingFourYeahCome UpInstanceComicFantasticAffectedComic BookLook At MeAghastFantastic Four Author:Walter Mosley