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4391 Novelist Quotes

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Could Father Hate Hated
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Exist Final God He
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia Used
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Life is a zoo in a jungle

Jungle Life LifeIsA Zoo
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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Less Like Pay Rich
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Because Everybody Hates Liked
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Any Bored Death Go
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Food Mural Museums Par
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Heart Human HumanHeart Like
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Bites Feeding Hand More
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Every ISee IWrite Inspired
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Experience Go Learn School
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Cookie Diction Like Out
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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Another Earth Primarily Put
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Another Each Enough Like
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Acts Been End God
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Coat Confession Good Only
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Adult Arrive Before Children
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Man Men World You
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Afraid Any End Leaving
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Almost Artist Chaos Confusion
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Given Infidelity Notice Physical
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Both Did Face Gave
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

After Anyone Before Even
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Any Being Capable Chances
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Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Experience Finally Happens Long
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
Relief Told Such Truth
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Fiction Result Shall Tell
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Anything Anything Else Apprenticeship Craft
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Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
Again End Learned Love
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Abuse Against Beauty Been
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Courage Gift Marks
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

Accepted Adult Anything Authors
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

Class ClassClown Clown Getting
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I feel happy to terrify kids.

Feel Happy IFeel Kids
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

Any Books Comic ComicBooks
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

About Block Characters Could
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

Believe Generous Guess Kind
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Authors Book Books Develop
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Bar BarMitzvah First Mitzvah
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

Bee Been Books Chased
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

Books Comic ComicBooks Discovered
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
Afraid Back Books Feelings
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

About Different Many Much
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Amazing Been Everything Happened
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

Around Attraction Been Chance
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Because Books Fun Grew
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

Books Chicken Go ILove
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
After Came College ICame
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

Good Morning Obsessed Radio
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