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“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.”

Young Fiction Letters Clean Flesh Manage Secure Preserves Novelists Bullets Embedded Love Letter

Book:Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.”

Success Young Literature Failure Novelists Be Young Essayists

Book:The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.”

Kind Seems Literature Conditions Produce Losing Conscious Consequence Manners Novelists Bad Manners

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.”

Character Given Novel Personality Involved Being True Inevitable Novelists True Life

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.”

People Saws One Day Novelists Admirable Maybe One Day

Author:Michael Palin

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”

“I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'”

People Want Mean Stories Compassion Very Good Novelists Storyteller Mean People Stylist

Author:James Patterson

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

Source: This Business of Living

“I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.”

People Knows Feels Years Mind Stills Book States Three Ability Millions Written Novelists Copies My Sister Platforms Keepers Ability To Change My Sister's Keeper Sisters Keeper

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”

Source: Gone to Soldiers: A Novel

“With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.”

Feelings Hands Accepting Novelists Fallen Surgeons Anesthetics

Author:Saul Bellow

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.”

Needs Success Education Learning Successful Degrees Novelists Being Successful Success In Life Literacy Key To Success Recipe For Success

Author:Munshi Premchand

“A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.”

Writing Years Book Fellows Reputation Novelists Rising

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

People Soul Happiness Friendship Teacher Gratitude Grateful Happy Thanks Novelists Cheer Good People Charming Be Grateful Thanksgiving Thank You Bad Ass Real Friends Thankful Being Thankful Gardener Finding Happiness Funny Relationship Gratefulness Friendship Memories Thankful Gratitude One Line Friendship Essayists Gratitude And Appreciation I Am Grateful Expressing Gratitude Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving Gratitude Thank You Gratitude Gratitude And Thanks Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Love And Gratitude Grateful Heart Thankful Heart Inspirational Gratitude Express Appreciation Gratitude For Help Words Of Gratitude Looking For Happiness Gratitude For Life Grateful For You Grateful Thankful Gratitude For Health Grateful Inspirational Gratitude For Work Thankfulness For Love Happy And Grateful Grateful Thanks Gratitude To Others Spiritual Gratitude Life Appreciation Thanks You Grateful For Life Gratitude For Friends Being Grateful For Life Grateful And Thankful Grateful Happy Thanking Friends Thanksgiving Grateful Sincere Gratitude

Book:Pleasures and days: and other writings

Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Author:Marcel Proust

“If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.”

Ifs Character Problem Able Literature Study Share Novelists Unconscious Personal Grooming

Author:Manuel Puig

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.”

Thinking Children I Can Differences Reader Promise Novelists Lifelong

Author:Rick Riordan

“I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.”

Writing Ideas Form Careers Mystery Adults Novelists

Author:Rick Riordan

“It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.”

Writing Book Hard Character Becoming Series Novelists Good Friend Wraps Heroines

Author:Rick Riordan

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.”

Ifs Book Ends Remember Written Novelists

Author:Tom Robbins

“Most novelists write about twisted lives.”

Writing Novelists Twisted

Author:Tom Robbins

“The more you know the less you need to say.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.”

Writing Sometimes Pain Asks Novel Baby Female Compare Novelists Having A Baby

Author:Salman Rushdie

“A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.”

Years Said Wanted Reading Couple Years Ago Independence Tired Ancient Greek Novelists Historian Marvelous Declaration Declaration Of Independence Ancient Greek

Author:Richard Russo

“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”

Knows Love Fall Girl Half Hell Falling In Love Novelists Sat Confused Pretty Girl Hot Girl Confused Love Funny Girl

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

“I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.”

Poet Novelists Poetic Playwright Essayists

Author:Jose Saramago

“In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.”

Knows Writing Novel Know How Effects Novelists Essays Essayists

Author:Jose Saramago

“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.”

Writing Believe Facts Artist I Believe Novel Influence Citizens Musician Paint Painter Novelists

Author:Jose Saramago

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.”

Hate House Term Novel I Hate Novelists Buying Ashamed Publishing Very Happy Graphic Bourgeois Cartoonist Graphic Novels Publishing House

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.”

Enemy Novelists Usurpers

Author:Will Self

“The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.”

Thinking World Kind Certain Stuff Fiction Greatness Opposites Critics British Contemporary Odd Novelists Symbiosis

Author:Will Self

“Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

“An urban novelist never minds a little decay.”

Mind Littles Novelists Decay Urban

Author:Jane Smiley

“Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.”

Novel Fashion Conservative Surface Novelists Aesthetic Bent Relevance Irrelevance

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

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