"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether……" — Elizabeth George
"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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19 Quotes by Elizabeth George
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He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in…
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Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present…
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Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to…
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She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had…
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I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
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Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of…
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Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It…
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at…
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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and…
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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