Quotes by Novelists I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over. Anna Quindlen novelists fiction world I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making. Anna Quindlen novelists crazy thinking If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. Annie Dillard progress novelists understanding Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens. Anthony Trollope style novelists impossible Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. Arthur Conan Doyle novelists sorrow joy The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Arthur Schopenhauer novelists writing interesting If you're happy in a dream, does that count? Arundhati Roy novelists dream happy A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul. Ayi Kwei Armah novelists soul mind What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish. Ayn Rand novelists money life I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life. Ayn Rand novelists rights life An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. Ayn Rand novelists honesty men When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. Ayn Rand novelists men mean Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. Ayn Rand sacrifice novelists self It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. Ayn Rand famous-women novelists money All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. Ayn Rand novelists use evil I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Ayn Rand philosopher novelists giving I am. I think. I will. Ayn Rand philosopher novelists thinking The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor. Ayn Rand philosopher novelists greatness Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. Barbara Kingsolver knives novelists memories The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Barbara Kingsolver novelists artist writing «1234567891011»