The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world.… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist. — Donald O. Hebb Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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