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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
Aidan Chambers
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Author
Life Is
Novel
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I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.
Noah Baumbach
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Writer
Novel
Sometimes
Writing
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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
Milan Kundera
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Writer
Judgment
Morality
Novel
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History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
Jules De Goncourt
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Writer
Fiction
Novel
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The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.
Victoria Glendinning
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Biographer
Critics
Facts
Novel
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My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.
James Thayer
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Author
Compelling
Ideas
Novel
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I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
Kenzaburo Oe
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Author
Form
Novel
Representing
Suffering
Survived
Sufferings
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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
Donna Leon
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Author
Novel
Outlines
Plans
Outline
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It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!
James Ellroy
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Crime Writer
Novel
Race
Sex
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
Zadie Smith
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Novelist
Bigger
Comic
Crime
Novel
English
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Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
Jo Nesbo
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Author
Novel
Plans
Teens
Writing
Life My Life Point
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The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.
Suzanne Collins
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Writer
Home
Excellent
Novel
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Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
Jennifer Echols
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Writer
Novel
People
Reading
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For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
Eileen Favorite
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Writer
Bookworms
Mother
Novel
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I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
Daniel Pennac
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Writer
Finishing
Novel
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
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Novelist
Crafts
Emotional
Novel
Writing
Convey
Emotional Truth
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Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
Chad Harbach
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Writer
Achieve
Novel
Anywhere Else
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Novelist
Action
Cliche
Novel
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When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.
William Gibson
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Novelist
No Idea
Novel
Direction
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After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
Ashwin Sanghi
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Author
Editors
Novel
Suggestions
Writing
Editor
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The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.
Thomas Guthrie
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New Testament
Novel
Testament
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The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.
Jane Smiley
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Novelist
Desire
Novel
Writing
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Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Writer
Asks
Novel
People
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Playwright
Novel
Real Talk
Story Writers
Three
Writing
Rules
Unfortunately
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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Alberto Moravia
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Novelist
Century
Novel
Proust
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I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.
Manju Kapur
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Novelist
Novel
Six
Thirds
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Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
Jane Smiley
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Novelist
Crowds
Novel
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Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
Terry Teachout
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Critic
Entertainment
Late
Novel
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I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
Steve Erickson
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Novelist
Novel
Want
Writing
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
Manuel Puig
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Author
Aesthetic
Facade
Novel
Unconscious
Creates
Ultimately
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When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.
Salman Rushdie
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Novelist
Novel
Trying
Writing
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Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
Mark Twain
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Author
Bartender
Heaven
Novel
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
Ray Bradbury
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Writer
Hours
Novel
Short Story
Short
Story
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Jonathan Dee
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Novelist
Kind
Novel
Reader
Wells
Author
Experiment
Novels
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My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.
Ayelet Waldman
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Novelist
Hook
Novel
Article
Newspaper
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
Ian Mcewan
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Novelist
Determined
Novel
Turns
Oppressive
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
Salman Rushdie
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Novelist
Character
Indian
Novel
Writing
Central
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A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
Stuart Woods
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Novelist
Ambitious
Brash
Firsts
Novel
Talent
Announce
Arrival
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It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
Susanna Kearsley
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Novelist
Romantic
Driving
Driving Force
Novel
Pursuit
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I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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Author
Interesting
Novel
People
Things Happen
Good Always People
Argued
Good People Always
Interesting People
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For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
James N. Frey
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Writer
Harder
Novel
Writing
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One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.
Zadie Smith
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Novelist
Form
Novel
Smarter
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Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.
Chet Williamson
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Author
Easy
Novel
Second Chance
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I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
John Sladek
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Be Careful
Careful
Novel
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A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
Robert J. Sawyer
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Writer
Distance
Novel
Scenic
Short Story
Two
Between
Short
Points
Route
Shortest Distance
Story
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James
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Writer
Doe
Existence
Novel
Reason
Writing
Does
Attempt
Represent
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I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
John Thomas Sladek
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Author
Be Careful
Found
Novel
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Anne Tyler
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Novelist
Literature
Meals
Novel
Writing
Crummy
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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Elizabeth Moon
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Writer
Novel
Perceptions
Submerge
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The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
Tama Janowitz
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Novelist
Firsts
Novel
Revision
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