Top 18 American Novelist Quotes
#1. I'm a registered independent. I don't really believe in political parties. Bottom line: Mitt Romney's tax policy helps me. But I can't stomach seeing somebody go hungry or somebody not being able to get an education because I want more. So, I'm supporting Barack Obama.
Brian J. White
#2. 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
#3. I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
Don DeLillo
#4. The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess,
Sam Tanenhaus
#5. I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
Elliot Cowan
#6. The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.
Colum McCann
#7. The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.
Alexey Brodovitch
#8. You'd probably rather have a milk shake than a quart of blood, too, so we'll have to agree to disagree.
Christopher Buehlman
#9. I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#10. Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.
Randall Jarrell
#11. TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").
Ambrose Bierce
#12. I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
Daniel Suarez
#13. A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor ... The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.
Norman Mailer
#14. They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.
Victoria Aveyard
#15. I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?
Jeff Lindsay
#16. If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
Kevin Spacey
#17. I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.
Samuel Adams
#18. Be yourself ... And shoot for the stars. Obviously dreams really do come true.
Laura Osnes
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