Winning Novelist

Famous quotes containing the words winning and/or novelist:

    “The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)