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novelist
«Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
| About:
Art,
Culture,
Terrorism
| Keywords:
gunman, human culture, incorporate, incorporated, incorporates, incorporating, Makers, novelist, raid, raids, territory
«The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.»
Author: Janet Malcolm
| Keywords:
beach, confines, deep water, dominant, dye, dyed, dyes, exposing, exposure, fearlessly, gentlemanly, grieves, journalist, novelist, plunges, robe, shames, shore, The Clean, the novelist, timorousness, trait, trembling
«The gift of the family novelist is to turn the cleaning of a closet into an inventory of love and loss-to scan a poem from a shopping list.»
Author: Marilyn Gardner
| Keywords:
closet, Inventories, inventory, novelist, scan, scanned, scanning, scans, shopping list
«The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
novelist, relate, Small business, the novelist
«TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (_Mendax interminabilis_).»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
African, Africans, bite, commonly, efficacious, insect, insomnia, novelist, patients, regarded, remedy, The American, the novelist, tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze
«The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.»
«When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anon, devils, ducked, herbs, novelist, poems, remarkable, signing, suppressed, track, venture