Jill Barnett famous quotes

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.
-- Jill Barnett

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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

All novels are experimental.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.