Susan Howatch Quotes

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

Susan Howatch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 14, 1940

Topics

StoryThinkImportantWantTell

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Robert Musil

GoodBookBadRareUnusualJust

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

Angela Bowie

LoveSonMeWhyUnderstandNever

People have a false understanding of what our legal system is like - how it works/operates - from shows like 'Law and Order,' which suggest that lawyers appear on demand and do a tremendous amount of investigation and background research.

Michelle Alexander

PeopleResearchLawLegalLawyers

At its core, what's amazing about YC is you don't have to work to get in. You don't have to know anyone, so there isn't some type of old boys' club.

Michael Seibel

WorkAmazingYouKnowOldClub

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Lois Wyse

GenerationGrandchildrenConnectDots

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

Don Rickles

LoveGodHumorThank GodFriends

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

Debbie Reynolds

ChildrenMoreInterestedRaising

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Constance Baker Motley

DaySchoolTeenMeHomeworkHouse

You look around, and you think, 'Given the chance, if we can get away with it, people are going to be nasty to each other. They're going to pull up the draw bridge; they're going to draw up the ladder and try to live in this little bubble without giving anything to anyone else - without even receiving anything from anyone else.'

Clare-Hope Ashitey

LivePeopleBridgeChanceThinkYou

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

Bobby Darin

GreatGoalHumanHuman BeingBeing

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

Alice Oswald

LipsPlaceGreyMoreHungryPieces

What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.

Paul Wesley

WomenMeFashionWearGoingIdea

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