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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#critics #i #master #novel #popular

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#approach #crime #criminals #innovative #must

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#cannot #colleagues #critics #either #feel

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#economy #entrepreneurship #grow #innovation #opportunity

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#bicycle #novelists #poets #should #surely

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#european-novelists #literary-tradition #literature-in-translation #art

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#did #except #form #i #knew

Would you like some sacred chocolate?' a girl asked, appearing suddenly at Lara's side. 'They've very special chocolates,' she said, pushing a plate of the goods in Lara's direction. 'They're raw and sweetened with Stevia.' Stevia, huh? Lara grabbed a chocolate truffle and popped it into her mouth, winking at the girl. She hoped the 'stevia' would kick in soon, because frankly, it looked like these women were having a better time than she'd had in ages. ↗

— Lola Salt

#humour #romance-novels #age

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#evolutions #i #innovations #instruments #kind

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another. ↗

— Craig Mundie

#am #another #concerned #i #i am