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In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

The most original novelist now writing in English.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Damn it, there are so many idiots whose asses I have to kick! I'll have to start carrying a list just to keep track of 'em all!

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'

At EMILY's List, we’re in the business of expanding the political power of women.

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.