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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. – Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovRate it:
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. – H. L. MenckenRate it:
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H. L. MenckenRate it:
I've never considered myself a novelist even though I've written a number of books and happily made some money, i've always considered myself a journalist first or a sports writer first and always will. That's the business I've loved. It's the only thing I ever wanted to do. – Dan JenkinsRate it:
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. – Anthony BurgessRate it:
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. – F ScottRate it:

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