Lists Quotes - Page 16

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States.

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

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.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

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.