#nov

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#exhausting #far #i #know #most

Novel writing wrecks homes. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#novel #wrecks #writing

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. ↗

— John Fowles

#common #create #many #need #novelists

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know? ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#articles #fallen #few #go #i

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#ecosystem #favorite #fuel #innovation #know

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#cards #energy #equipment #get #go

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny. ↗

— Bill Frist

#commerce #destiny #extraordinary #help #innovations

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. ↗

— David Frum

#choices #control #events #just #makes

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. ↗

— David Frum

#decisions #door #go #heads #inside