Novelist Quotes

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
I delight in what I fear.
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
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