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Novelist Paul Bailey wrote the story of my life, An English Madam, and I became a television and media personality.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about history, personality, television, life

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds of all the poets now writing dropped dead suddenly, the loss to literature wold not be great.

CQuote by Charles Osburne about art, poets, literature, writing

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about things, contentment

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about literature, present, past

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Quote by Frank Norris about literature, life

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about quiet, fiction, happiness, work, love