Novelist And Poet Quotes
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If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.
— Margaret Atwood
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
— Rebecca Makkai
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
— Billy Collins
Everyone who came to see him asked questions that were either stupid or impertinent. Better to see no one than to see fools.
— Larry McMurtry
If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.
— Lysa TerKeurst
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
— Philip Larkin
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
— Thomas Hardy
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
— Aristotle.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
— Walter Scott
In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.
— Sarah Palin
Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing' ...
Page 100. — Jack Kerouac
Page 100. — Jack Kerouac
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
— Jose Saramago
Is everything a joke to you?" I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. "Not everything." "Like what?" "You.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
— Pearl Cleage
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
— Neil Gaiman
There is no gains without pain.
— Benjamin Franklin
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
— Tom Clancy
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
— Francois Mauriac
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
— Leslie Fiedler
The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.
— Robert H. Goddard
Never feel powerless when you have the power of love.
— Debasish Mridha
I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.
— Sue Grafton
In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can't stop the lines in time, so I'm a novelist.
— Colum McCann
Laziness is the first step towards efficiency.
— Patrick Bennett
He considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez