The human heart is bigger than the world..

Words are one thing, deeds are quite another..

Bravery hides in amazing places..

Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and….

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or pe….

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do..

You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred….

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened..

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake..

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am..

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist..

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise..

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced..

God pity the poor novelist..

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself..

I am. I think. I will..

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book..

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically..

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute..

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?.

Novelists never have to footnote..