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I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#because #difficult #directed #found #getting

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#books #graphic #graphic novels #intended #novels

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery. ↗

— Donald Evans

#development #discovery #economy #education #ensure

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bit #go #into #like #love

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#constitution #detriment #does #europe #innovation

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#hollywood #hollywood movies #i #kinds #like

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#economies #exposed #far #financial #financial systems

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#definitely #horror #i #like #novel