#nov

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#ago #asked #because #books #both

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#food #get #i #novels #putting

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school. ↗

— Owen Hart

#by the time #changed #child #fed #gauntlet

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#before #bureaucratic #company #everything #exciting

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#continuous #every #get #innovation #internet

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#art #art form #atlas #ayn #ayn rand

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

#art #better #better actor #come #end

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#continue #innovation #internet #mobile #more

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#ancient #brilliant #condemned #dictum #errors

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#adultery #after #allow #between #consequently