Author Profession

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Profession : Novelist

It’s just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Profession : Novelist

What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Profession : Novelist

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Profession : Novelist

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Profession : Novelist

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Profession : Novelist

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Profession : Novelist

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Profession : Novelist

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Profession : Novelist

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Profession : Novelist