Lists Quotes - Page 8

I go to bed every night and the list of what I've accomplished is astounding.

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

To be a true fashionista, you have to be on the best-dressed list and worst-dressed list.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.