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4391 Novelist Quotes

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Constantly Listen Music While
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Could Decades Few Hope
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Found History Lived Never
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Am Before Began Civilization
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I buy way too many books.

Books Buy Many Too
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Am Children Father Good
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All of life is a foreign country.

Country Foreign Foreign Country Life
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Consciousness Die Give Great
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Actor Becoming College Director
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Hard I Write Indian Long
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

Around Boyhood Got Kitchen
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Depending Going Hour Hours
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Crime Fault Indifference Moderation
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Best Land Laughed Men
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Fun Hard Having HavingFun
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Beatnik Bohemian Certain Elements
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Accomplished Fads Great Great Things
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
New Old Teach Tune
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Amazement Recollection Write Yourself
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

About Best Day End
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My witness is the empty sky.

Empty My Sky Witness
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Anybody Confusion Except Had
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Among Most Never Possessions
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Eye Life Life Is A Maybe
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Also Beings Dream Dreaming
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Avoid Drag Dust End
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Languages Liars Speak Who
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Control Failure Fault Lack
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Become Course Immediately Offer
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Itself Mind Only Own
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Because Everything First Learning
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Did Direction Every Every Time
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Again Battered Go Had
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Bite Bitten Dogs Get
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

Manners My Sweet Times
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Also Defeat Enemy Enough
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I know who the great poets are.

Great Know Poets Who
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Everything First Ground Ideas
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I don't really go out at all.

Go All Out Really
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Beatnik A Catholic
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Behave Benefit Community Every
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

Endless Fix Go Just
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

Always Father Mother Republican
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Also Angry Course Critics
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The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

Catholic Catholic Church Church Constituents
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

About Beauty Did Famous
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I really hate to write.
Hate Really Write
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Believe Born Confession Form
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

Burn Candles Everything Fabulous
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