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I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.


Lena Dunham


#journalist #novelist #thought #wanted

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.


James Ellroy


#any #as far as #because #dead #deal

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.


Ken Follett


#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.


David Halberstam


#book #driving #easier #get #marketing

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

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.


Jacqueline Susann


#concerned #i #literature #novelist #should

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.


Douglas Adams


#novelist #science-fiction #humor

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

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.


Philip Levine


#novelist #temperament

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.


H. L. Mencken


#historian #novelist #unsuccessful






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