"I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible."

-- Douglas Kennedy

#Novelists Quotes #Want Quotes #Serious Quotes

“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”

Source : Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.
“It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”
“If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.”
“Iâ€™m from Texasâ€¦the bigger the hair, the closer to God!”
“If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.”
“I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.”
“Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.”
“From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).”

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