Lists Quotes - Page 10

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

Make a written list of everything you love.

Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

cross that person off your invitation list.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.

I'm working hard every day to attain all of my goals. Winning the Super Bowl is obviously at the top of that list.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.