52 Quotations with Novelist.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite i ...
- 5. Joe Gores: A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents peo ...
- 6. H. L. Mencken: Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the ...
- 7. H. L. Mencken: Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- 8. Oscar Wilde: Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret ...
- 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is to ...
- 10. Virginia Woolf: When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils ...
- 11. Vladimir Nabokov: A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the presen ...
- 12. Leon Uris: A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or anothe ...
- 13. Graham Greene: A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from j ...
- 14. Joan Collins: According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And ...
- 15. Ian McEwan: By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of t ...
- 16. Milan Kundera: For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in whi ...
- 17. H. L. Mencken: Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
- 18. Leo C. Rosten: Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely no ...
- 19. Christopher Hampton: I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. ...
- 20. Philip Roth: I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I ...
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