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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").

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

I'm more of a seat of my pants, heat of the moment kind of person, which lends itself well to hosting and acting, but not necessarily going, "Oh, what is my shot list? That's right, I needed to work on a shot list."

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

Lists simplify, clarify, edify.

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

A comprehensive list of factors brings predictive stability and predictive stability and predictive power.

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

Cyclists are a pain in the ass.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

You can tell a lot about a person by what they let roll off their back.