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| W. H. Auden |
No poet or novelist wishes he...
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| Nicholson Baker |
For me, as a beginning...
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| John Barth |
If you are a novelist of...
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| Saul Bellow |
With a novelist, like a...
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| Eric Brown |
Well, to be honest I think...
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| Anthony Burgess |
A novelist should not be too...
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| Eric Carle |
Let's put it this way: if...
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| Caleb Carr |
I wanted nothing less than to...
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| Johnny Cash |
It's like a novelist writing...
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| Lee Child |
So, how to stay inside the...
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| Dorothy Dunnett |
After I convinced them that I...
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| James Ellroy |
Noir is dead for me because...
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| Lion Feuchtwanger |
Both the historian and the...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
I never met anybody in my...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
One more recent novelist to...
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| Suzanne Fields |
Dostoevski does not tell you...
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| C. S. Forester |
A whim, a passing mood...
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| Elizabeth George |
It is the job of the...
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| Hugo Gernsback |
What description of clouds and...
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| Graham Greene |
The economy of a novelist is...
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| David Halberstam |
With the marketing pressures driving...
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| Beth Henley |
But here's the thing: what you...
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| Alice Hoffman |
I never see a novel as...
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| John Irving |
Sigmund Freud was a novelist...
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| Jerzy Kosinski |
A novelist has a specific...
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| Stanley Kubrick |
A filmmaker has almost the...
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| Milan Kundera |
For a novelist, a given...
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| Philip Levine |
My temperament is not geared...
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| Norman Mailer |
If a person is not talented...
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| John Phillips Marquand |
When I'm writing a novel, I'm...
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| Mary McCarthy |
The suspense of a novel is...
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| Ian Mcewan |
It is not the first duty...
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| John McGahern |
Yes, but also one of the...
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| H. L. Mencken |
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
A novelist is, like all...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
Happy is the novelist who...
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| Frank Norris |
The function of the novelist...
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| Flannery O'Connor |
Manners are of such great...
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| George Plimpton |
He was interviewed in the...
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| Chaim Potok |
I think the hardest part of...
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| J. B. Priestley |
A novelist who writes nothing...
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| Manuel Puig |
The essayist has to follow a...
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| Manuel Puig |
If the novelist shares his or...
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| Terence Rattigan |
A playwright must be his own...
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| George Saintsbury |
Miss Austen had shown the...
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| Jose Saramago |
In effect I am not a...
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| Jose Saramago |
I am a better novelist than...
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| Irwin Shaw |
Every novelist has a different...
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| Dan Simmons |
There's a unique bond of trust...
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| Martin Cruz Smith |
As a novelist, I tell stories...
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| L. Neil Smith |
As a novelist, I have a...
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| Goldwin Smith |
The novelist must ground his...
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| Goldwin Smith |
The materials of the novelist...
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| Goldwin Smith |
The novelist must look on...
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| Wole Soyinka |
I don't really consider myself...
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| Wole Soyinka |
The novel, for me, was an...
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| Norman Spinrad |
I get work because I'm...
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| Jean Stafford |
You say that you hope I...
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| Jacqueline Susann |
I don't think any novelist...
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| Quentin Tarantino |
To be a novelist, all I...
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| Donna Tartt |
In order for a long piece...
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| Donna Tartt |
I believe, in a funny way...
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| Donna Tartt |
The job of the novelist is...
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| Donna Tartt |
The job of the novelist is...
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| Julie Walters |
Jane Austen was an extraordinary...
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| Vita Sackville-West |
Among the many problems which...
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| Frederick Wiseman |
I don't like to read novels...
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| Sarah Zettel |
I'm mostly a novelist these...
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