Novelist Quotes

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.
The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
Writing novels is the most exciting.
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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