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| Lynn Abbey |
I'm not constrained by being a...
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| Lynn Abbey |
For me, writing a short story...
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| Lynn Abbey |
Short-story writing requires an...
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| Lynn Abbey |
I've read short stories that...
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| Steve Albini |
We have no general conceptual...
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| Fred Allen |
I can't understand why a...
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| Kevin J. Anderson |
I sold my very first novel...
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| Piers Anthony |
I did not know at first...
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| Piers Anthony |
I do one Xanth novel a...
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| Piers Anthony |
I hope to read a Harry...
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| Piers Anthony |
It would be easier to write...
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| Piers Anthony |
No novel is a clone of...
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| David Antin |
It's hard being a hostage in...
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| Sergio Aragones |
The reason I love comics more...
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| Jeffrey Archer |
Well I think after leaving...
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| W. H. Auden |
The ear tends to be lazy...
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| W. H. Auden |
Hemingway is terribly limited. His...
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| Bille August |
The novel is a penetrating...
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| Jane Austen |
The person, be it gentleman or...
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| J. G. Ballard |
Any fool can write a novel...
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| Charles Foster Bass |
Like any good spy novel, the...
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| Ann Beattie |
I like a lot of Margaret...
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| Alison Bechdel |
People really want to think...
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| Daniel Bell |
The impulse of the journalist...
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| Saul Bellow |
A novel is balanced between a...
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| Saul Bellow |
A good novel is worth more...
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| Paul Berg |
Novel technologies and ideas that...
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| Jose Bergamin |
The novel is born of...
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| Peter Bichsel |
I wanted to write a novel...
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| William Peter Blatty |
Well, the research into it...
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| Ronald Blythe |
The ordinariness of living to...
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| Alain de Botton |
I was uncomfortable writing fiction...
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| Elizabeth Bowen |
If a theme or idea is...
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| Poppy Z. Brite |
I don't like to talk about...
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| Terry Brooks |
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del...
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| Louise Brown |
I'm working on a nonfiction...
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| Louise Brown |
I could write an entertaining...
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| James Lee Burke |
Today, there are more opportunities...
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| Augusten Burroughs |
There's never a false note in...
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| Octavia Butler |
No... a novel is a long...
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| Truman Capote |
I got this idea of doing...
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| Joyce Carey |
A novel points out that the...
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| Eric Carle |
Let's put it this way: if...
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| John Le Carre |
We have learned in recent...
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| Angela Carter |
Reading a book is like re...
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| Joyce Cary |
A novel should be an...
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| Michael Chabon |
I love Richard Yates, his work...
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| Iris Chang |
I may attempt a novel. I...
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| Lord Chesterfield |
A novel must be exceptionally...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
A good novel tells us the...
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| Winston Churchill |
I always seem to get...
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| Sandra Cisneros |
And the nice thing about...
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| Sandra Cisneros |
Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and...
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| Jonathan Coe |
It seems to me that you...
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| Jonathan Coe |
It's only a drawback in the...
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| Jonathan Coe |
You would go mad if you...
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| Stephen Collins |
I'm working on a new novel...
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| Mason Cooley |
The novel avoids the sublime...
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| Jilly Cooper |
But I always seem to finish...
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| Francis Ford Coppola |
When I do a novel, I...
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| Robert Cormier |
My dream was to be known...
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| Eric Allin Cornell |
My fellow students there were...
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| David Coverdale |
I probably listen to Burn more...
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| Caleb Cushing |
Be the responsibility on their...
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| Jeffery Deaver |
When I find myself frozen...
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| Jeffery Deaver |
I spend eight months outlining...
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| Don DeLillo |
If I were a writer, how...
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| Don DeLillo |
It's no accident that my first...
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| Anita Desai |
Many characters in the novel...
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| Anthony Doerr |
I found my first novel...
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| Carl Clinton Van Doren |
Although by 1851 tales of...
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| Carl Clinton Van Doren |
The two most common charges...
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| Arthur Conan Doyle |
Sir Walter, with his 61 years...
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| Helen Dunmore |
I enjoy research; in fact...
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| Helen Dunmore |
However, the difficulties and pleasures...
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| Helen Dunmore |
A novel, in the end, is...
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| Lawrence Durrell |
It takes a lot of energy...
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| David Eddings |
I wrote a novel for my...
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| Bret Easton Ellis |
Writing a novel is not method...
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| Lucy Ellman |
Writing a novel without being...
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| Ben Elton |
My advice to anyone adapting a...
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| Chow Yun-Fat |
In the West audiences think I...
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| Raymond E. Feist |
Jigsaw Lady is the working...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
Cooper wrote a novel which is...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
Henry Miller wrote novels, but...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
I think Henry Miller has had...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
Jane Austen is at the end...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
The novel doesn't come into...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
The novel is always pop art...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
The novel is the first art...
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| Fannie Flagg |
Strangely enough, the first character...
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| Ken Follett |
My favorite period is World...
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| C. S. Forester |
Novel writing is far and away...
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| C. S. Forester |
Novel writing wrecks homes.
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| C. S. Forester |
There is no other way of...
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| E. M. Forster |
The final test for a novel...
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| Janet Frame |
Writing a novel is not merely...
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| Stephen Fry |
Personally, I'd never seen a...
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| Neil Gaiman |
Great, big, serious novels always...
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| Elizabeth George |
I attempt to write a good...
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| Walter Gilbert |
By asking a novel question...
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| Walter Gilbert |
The best project is one that...
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| Oliver Goldsmith |
Romance and novel paint beauty...
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| Ellen Goodman |
I regard this novel as a...
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| Juan Goytisolo |
The fundamental purpose of a...
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| Sue Grafton |
I started writing seriously when...
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| Peter R. Grant |
The theory of founder effects...
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| Andrew Greeley |
I write easily, let's put it...
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| Julien Green |
Our life is a book that...
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| Julien Green |
A scrupulous man will never...
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| Philip Greenspun |
If I'd had more time or...
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| Zane Grey |
Every once in a while I...
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| Zane Grey |
Today I began the novel that...
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| Zane Grey |
There are hours when I must...
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| Judith Guest |
I can write for a long...
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| David Guterson |
I was totally absorbed in the...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
Everyone thinks they're going to...
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| Mark Haddon |
If one book's done this well...
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| Mark Haddon |
If you enjoy math and you...
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| Tom T. Hall |
I had the notion that I...
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| Richard Helms |
It was my angry, Dickensian...
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| Ernest Hemingway |
When writing a novel a writer...
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| Utada Hikaru |
The same parts of my brain...
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| Alice Hoffman |
I never see a novel as...
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| Alice Hoffman |
No one knows how to write...
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| Robert Hughes |
Landscape is to American painting...
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| Johan Huizinga |
Systematic philosophical and practical anti...
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| James Humes |
I don't like jokes in speeches...
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| Charlie Hunnam |
I was a little bit wary...
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| Guillermo C. Infante |
That is what I define as...
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| Guillermo C. Infante |
It means that no matter what...
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| John Irving |
Writing a novel is actually...
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| John Irving |
And I don't want to begin...
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| John Irving |
I don't begin a novel or...
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| John Irving |
I had been a student in...
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| John Irving |
I've always been a fan of...
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| John Irving |
The building of the architecture...
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| John Irving |
There's no reason you should...
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| Henry James |
The only obligation to which...
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| Henry James |
The only reason for the...
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| William L. Jenkins |
The stories have been told so...
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| Jerry B. Jenkins |
Good fiction must be entertaining...
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| Jerry B. Jenkins |
SOON was the first novel where...
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| Diane Johnson |
A novel's whole pattern is...
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| Guy Johnson |
With this first novel, I am...
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| Lynn Johnston |
I've had some tremendous adventures...
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| Lynn Johnston |
I've always felt that life is...
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| Neil Jordan |
I took two years away from...
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| Jonathan Kellerman |
Each novel is harder than its...
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| Thomas Keneally |
And it is a folly to...
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| Tracy Kidder |
I wrote a novel about the...
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| Joe Klein |
Novel writing should never be...
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| Dean Koontz |
Writing a novel is like making...
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| Dean Koontz |
In my personal life, I'm a...
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| Dean Koontz |
When I'm working on a novel...
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| Dean Koontz |
I never discuss a novel while...
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| Jerzy Kosinski |
I don't fret over lost time...
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| Milan Kundera |
A novel that does not uncover...
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| David Herbert Lawrence |
Only in a novel are all...
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| David Herbert Lawrence |
The novel is the highest form...
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| Doris Lessing |
There are no laws for the...
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| Jonathan Lethem |
In my third novel there is...
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| Penelope Lively |
I'm writing another novel and...
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| Penelope Lively |
Every novel generates its own...
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| Penelope Lively |
The pleasure of writing fiction...
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| Mario Vargas Llosa |
No matter how ephemeral it is...
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| Russell Lynes |
Every journalist has a novel...
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| Thomas B. Macaulay |
I shall not be satisfied...
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| Robert MacNeil |
Yes, after some time spent...
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| Norman Mailer |
It's not a good idea to...
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| Heinrich Mann |
There is no better way of...
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| John Phillips Marquand |
When I'm writing a novel, I'm...
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| Marlee Matlin |
I am writing my second novel...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
There are three rules for...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
The great American novel has...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
There are three rules for...
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| Daphne du Maurier |
When one is writing a novel...
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| Daphne du Maurier |
Women want love to be a...
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| Andre Maurois |
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed...
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| Andre Maurois |
The really great novel tends...
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| Ernst Mayr |
Living in an entirely different...
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| Anne McCaffrey |
I would recommend the short...
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| Mary McCarthy |
The suspense of a novel is...
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| George Barr McCutcheon |
In course of time my first...
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| John McGahern |
I belong to the middle class...
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| Donald McKay |
My first novel took 12 years...
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| James Merrill |
Before trying a novel I wrote...
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| Nicholas Meyer |
A screenplay is not a finished...
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| Jonathan Miller |
What makes literature interesting is...
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| Eugenio Montale |
Narrative art, the novel, from...
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| Elizabeth Moon |
In a novel, I could submerge...
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| Samuel E. Morison |
I have nothing revolutionary or...
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| Toni Morrison |
I wrote my first novel because...
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| Nicholas Mosley |
I did not think much what...
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| Bill Mumy |
Babylon 5 is probably the...
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| Walter Murch |
I think every age has a...
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| George Murray |
I still write the occasional...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
Turning one's novel into a...
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| Gloria Naylor |
One should be able to return...
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| Graham Nelson |
The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't...
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| Howard Nemerov |
For a Jewish Puritan of the...
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| Michael Nesmith |
I just finished a novel, and...
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| Anais Nin |
There is not one big cosmic...
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| Flannery O'Connor |
Writing a novel is a terrible...
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| Kenzaburo Oe |
I have survived by representing...
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| Michael Ondaatje |
I see the poem or the...
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| Michael Ondaatje |
You want to suggest something...
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| Michael Ondaatje |
You're getting everyone's point of...
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| Michael Ondaatje |
The first sentence of every...
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| George Orwell |
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is...
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| Patton Oswalt |
I had a romance novel inside...
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| Amos Oz |
But The Same Sea is set...
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| Amos Oz |
I wrote a novel about Israelis...
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| Sara Paretsky |
The crime novel has always...
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| Sara Paretsky |
Around the time I turned 30...
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| Ann Patchett |
I was very influenced by The...
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| Alan Paton |
If you wrote a novel in...
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| Thomas Perry |
Reading a novel in which all...
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| Thomas Perry |
The characters you refer to as...
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| Ryan Phillippe |
My first film goes into...
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| Sydney Pollack |
Reading a novel of a private...
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| Chaim Potok |
If I had a plot that...
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| Chaim Potok |
A book is sent out into...
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| Jerry Pournelle |
You no longer have much in...
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| Jerry Pournelle |
So, I guess the answer to...
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| Dawn Powell |
A novel is like a gland...
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| Anthony Powell |
People think that because a...
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| Jack Prelutsky |
Poetry seems to sink into us...
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| Manuel Puig |
One performs a very different...
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| Manuel Puig |
It's my own personal unconscious...
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| Manuel Puig |
I've always wondered why there...
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| Manuel Puig |
All of my problems are rather...
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| Philip Pullman |
What I couldn't help noticing...
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| Ted Rall |
When I put together a graphic...
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| Ted Rall |
If I had to rank my...
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| Ted Rall |
I don't think anyone has...
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| Stephen Rea |
The Butcher Boy is a very...
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| Robert Reed |
Before I was reading science...
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| Jean Rhys |
I like shape very much. A...
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| Anne Rice |
The most difficult novel I...
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| Mordecai Richler |
If you're writing a novel...
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| Francesca da Rimini |
Occasionally I still do a bit...
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| Jim Rohn |
A novel is never anything, but...
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| Judith Rossner |
I knew I'd have to go...
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| David Lee Roth |
When you get something like...
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| Jane Rule |
I had always said to myself...
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| Richard Russo |
You can be interested in a...
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| Richard Russo |
When I start getting close to...
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| Richard Russo |
When I look back over my...
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| Richard Russo |
I was pretty dead set against...
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| Richard Russo |
You use simple brushstrokes in...
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| George Sand |
Life resembles a novel more...
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| Jose Saramago |
The novel is not so much...
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| Nathalie Sarraute |
The novel moves like all the...
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| Nathalie Sarraute |
I have often heard that the...
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| John Sayles |
But compared to writing a...
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| John Sayles |
I think I got spoiled and...
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| Richard Schickel |
A great novel is concerned...
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| Peter Shaffer |
But the first published thing...
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| Irwin Shaw |
In a novel, it's hard to...
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| Irwin Shaw |
I cringe when critics say I'm...
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| Robert Sheckley |
A novel is often a longer...
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| Sidney Sheldon |
In a novel, on the other...
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| Sidney Sheldon |
When you write a movie, you...
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| Hu Shih |
For all the social changes in...
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Life is God's novel. Let him...
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| John Sladek |
I found some time ago that...
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| Jane Smiley |
Oh, that sound? I'm in the...
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| Wole Soyinka |
The novel, for me, was an...
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| Nicholas Sparks |
What's the challenge in writing...
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| Norman Spinrad |
The thematic, psychological, and cultural...
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| Danielle Steel |
I completed my first novel...
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| Rod Steiger |
I had read the novel and...
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| Henri B. Stendhal |
A novel is a mirror carried...
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| George Stephen |
Many of my short stories (all...
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| George Stephen |
So, I outlined a horror novel...
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| Wallace Stevens |
The fire burns as the novel...
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| Theodore Sturgeon |
You don't sit up in a...
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| Antonio Tabucchi |
In a novel, my feelings and...
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| Antonio Tabucchi |
The most important basis of...
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| Gay Talese |
I am writing about people who...
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| Amy Tan |
I started a second novel seven...
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| Donna Tartt |
You are - all your experience...
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| Donna Tartt |
The novel is about five...
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| Donna Tartt |
Actually, I enjoy the process...
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| Donna Tartt |
The Little Friend is a long...
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| Edward Teller |
A fact is a simple statement...
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| John Tesh |
If you want to write the...
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| David Thewlis |
Restoration I did because I...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
Night is certainly more novel...
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| Alexis de Tocqueville |
In a revolution, as in a...
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| Rose Tremain |
The unfolding of a story is...
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| Rose Tremain |
The process of rewriting is...
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| Rose Tremain |
Perhaps, more importantly, I think...
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| Rose Tremain |
I have likened writing a novel...
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| Rose Tremain |
I can inhabit any character in...
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| Rose Tremain |
A novel usually takes me two...
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| Anthony Trollope |
There is no happiness in love...
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| Anthony Trollope |
It is the test of a...
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| Francois Truffaut |
The film of tomorrow appears...
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| Anne Tyler |
The hardest novel to write was...
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| Anne Tyler |
I do write long, long...
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| Anne Tyler |
My family can always tell when...
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| Kenneth Tynan |
A novel is a static thing...
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| Joan D. Vinge |
I was thinking about what I...
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| Joan D. Vinge |
Here was a fragment of Goddess...
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| Kurt Vonnegut |
Any reviewer who expresses rage...
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| Julie Walters |
I'm writing a novel about two...
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| Eudora Welty |
Writing a story or a novel...
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| Vita Sackville-West |
Among the many problems which...
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| Donald E. Westlake |
My work schedule has changed...
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| Edith Wharton |
I have never known a novel...
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| Patrick White |
Then about 1951 I began...
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| Edmund White |
In the case of my book...
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| Terri Windling |
A good novel editor is...
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| Tobias Wolff |
I believe that the short story...
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| Tobias Wolff |
And you can tell the writers...
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| Tobias Wolff |
Perhaps that is why the novel...
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| Bob Woodward |
Watergate is an immensely complicated...
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| Virginia Woolf |
Nothing induces me to read a...
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| Frances Wright |
However novel it may appear, I...
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| Elizabeth Wurtzel |
Am I worried people will say...
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| Marguerite Young |
I don't believe there can be...
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| Ahmet Zappa |
The way this whole novel thing...
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| Florenz Ziegfeld |
Not only may she unconsciously...
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