All Quotes

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.
‐‐ Joanna Scott

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.
‐‐ Don Winslow

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.
‐‐ Simon Schama

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.
‐‐ Philip Roth

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
‐‐ Michael Korda

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy

The novelty of corsets and dresses and hats very soon wears off.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
‐‐ John T. Flynn

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.
‐‐ Dave Obey

The NRL is not an easy gig, but they have some good talent, some good youngsters coming through.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
‐‐ Rand Paul

The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.
‐‐ Rob Paulsen

The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

The nuclear deal with Iran is fundamentally flawed.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.
‐‐ Greg Wise

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
‐‐ Dave Barry

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.
‐‐ Joe Barton

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.
‐‐ Lee Myung-bak

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
‐‐ Charles Horner

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
‐‐ Severo Ochoa

The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
‐‐ Natasha Henstridge

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
‐‐ Ike Skelton

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
‐‐ Jack Markell

The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.
‐‐ H. Robert Horvitz

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
‐‐ Hans Rosling

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
‐‐ Nick Lowe

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
‐‐ Brian Greene

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.
‐‐ Richard Neal

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
‐‐ Arthur Miller

The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.
‐‐ James Lankford

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
‐‐ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin