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4391 Novelist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Acceptable Deal Did Ernest Hemingway
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

American Freak Regarded Think
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

About Europe He Improve
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

American Born English He
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Big Curiously Full Life
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Bringing Care Great Just
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Believe Body Gone Wagon
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

After Dead Drink Few
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
Anybody Anything Finished Never
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The writer works in a lonely way.

Lonely Way Works Writer
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Everybody Hard Keep Novel
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

About Almost Always Best
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Being He Honor Human
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Any Formula Great More
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Characters Cord Cut Own
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Even Feel Get He
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Contact Enjoy Football Get
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Cringe Critics Master Novel
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books Enough Kept Long
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Society Fullness People Create
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

History About Parts Story
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Purpose Art Serve Indict
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Replace Careful End Always
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Democracy Educated Grounded Healthy
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Against Side Artist Emperor
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Gender Citizens People Fair
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Neck Around Time Ankle
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Country Leave Without Off
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Centuries Day Enough Just
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Existing Gains Imagine Journey
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Reality Order Create Art
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Leaders Because Should Nigeria
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Blunt Refusal Tests Integrity
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Repair Year Take Done
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Believe Lies Living Art
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Days Moments Remember
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Far Fast Fears Light
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity Met Hath Own
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Tongue Ready Rather Hand
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Closing Dropped End Life
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Given Lessons Taken
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Always Between Body Clash
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Chain First Right Mistake
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Because Misery Does Love
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Alone Boy Company Grown
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