#nov

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#either #intellectual #intelligent #may #novelist

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ↗

— Craig Claiborne

#cooking #experimenter #good #gospel #home

لا يتحمل الحياة بلا أحلام .. منذ طفولتي لم أجرب العيش بلا أحلام .. أن تنتظر شيئًا .. أن تُحرم من شيء .. أن تغلق عينيك ليلًا وأنت تأمل في شيء .. أن تتلقى وعدًا بشيء .. ↗

— أحمد خالد توفيق

#life #novel #dreams

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#retirement #writing #age

في الستين من العمر ، نحن بالكاد بلغنا الثلثين من عمرنا ، لذا ينبغي ألا ندفن أنفسنا ! ينبغي العيش ! ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#old #old-age #age

You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adventure-stories #coming-of-age-novel #the-wayward-gifted #age

... the blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#nuclear-bomb #supernova #age

إن مشكلة العيش لمدة طويلة هي أن المرء يرى كثيرًا من الناس يمرون أمام عينيه ↗

— Lisa See

#old-age #old-people #age

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#few #masters #most #novices #picture

As a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant, Sheba had lived in Charleston since she turned five years of age. She was Ethiopian by birth, but American by preference. She had worked hard, studied and sacrificed plenty to get where she was today, no easy feat for someone who had just celebrated her twenty-sixth birthday. According to her friends, Sheba was a beauty, though when she looked in the mirror, she saw inevitable flaws; her cheekbones were too pronounced, her mouth a little too wide, her nose with that perturbing slant to it. Still, she accepted compliments gratefully, especially from her roommate, Janelle. Janelle was the true beauty, Sheba thought, with dark ebony skin so smooth that she could be a walking ad for Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate. ↗

— Joanna Hynes

#interracial-romance #multicultural #romance-novels #age