#nov

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#did #i #middle #myself #novelist

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it. ↗

— Steve Brown

#corporate #creative #experiment #get #gives

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#equally #habits #minds #novelty #opposite

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich. ↗

— Arthur Bryant

#after #anti-semitic #berlin #correspondent #even

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

#better #better off #century #couple #ever

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#commerce #easy #fashion #jackets #meat

To innovate is not to reform. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#reform

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#doing #even #i #i write #long

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#agree #because #competition #could #cover