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«It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.»
«According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced people for that.»
«As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.»
«A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.»
«Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.»
«If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.»
«A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.»
«They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.»
«Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.»
«I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.»