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| Lynn Abbey |
I've read short stories that...
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| Kate Adie |
I also read modern novels - I...
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| Dorothy Allison |
When I was growing up, I...
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| Darren Aronofsky |
Comic books and graphic novels...
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| Paul Auster |
I don't think that you can...
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| Paul Auster |
I don't know if she should...
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| Honore de Balzac |
All humanity is passion; without...
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| Natalie Clifford Barney |
Novels are longer than life.
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| Bruce Boxleitner |
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of...
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| Billy Bragg |
So, in some ways, the...
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| Harold Brodkey |
True stories, autobiographical stories, like...
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| Harold Brodkey |
I can't change the past, and...
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| Anita Brookner |
Writing novels preserves you in...
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| Eric Brown |
Well, to be honest I think...
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| Louise Brown |
I bought a selection of short...
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| Anatole Broyard |
Aphorisms are bad for novels...
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| Ivy Compton-Burnett |
At a certain point my novels...
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| Octavia Butler |
Well, writing was what I...
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| Taylor Caldwell |
I have written two medical...
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| John Cale |
I'm writing a movie about...
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| John Le Carre |
When you're my age and you...
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| Jack L. Chalker |
I write novels and other...
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| Jack L. Chalker |
First, people don't read novels...
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| Nicolas Chamfort |
Love is more pleasant than...
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| Raymond Chandler |
At least half the mystery...
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| Leslie Charteris |
Others, amounting to four novels...
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| Jonathan Coe |
But I have always - ever since...
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| Jonathan Coe |
I have two ideas for novels...
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| Jonathan Coe |
But at the same time, I...
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| Jonathan Coe |
The writer I feel the most...
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| Joan Collins |
And I used to write novels...
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| Caroline B. Cooney |
I wrote eight full-length...
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| Caroline B. Cooney |
Actually my first eight books...
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| Francis Ford Coppola |
When I do a novel, I...
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| Stanley Crouch |
I also wanted to do something...
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| Jeffery Deaver |
In suspense novels even subplots...
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| Jeffery Deaver |
The easy answer is that...
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| Cory Doctorow |
Novels for me are how I...
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| Buchi Emecheta |
In all my novels, I deal...
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| Lion Feuchtwanger |
Asking the author of historical...
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| Lion Feuchtwanger |
After closely examining my conscience...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
Henry Miller wrote novels, but...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't...
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| Shelby Foote |
My second book, Follow Me Down...
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| John M. Ford |
At one point I intended to...
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| C. S. Forester |
I have heard of novels started...
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| Neil Gaiman |
Because, if one is writing...
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| Neil Gaiman |
Great, big, serious novels always...
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| Sue Grafton |
Of the first seven novels I...
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| David Guterson |
The real question is: How do...
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| Mark Haddon |
I don't mean that literary...
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| Mark Haddon |
I've written 16 children's books...
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| Mark Haddon |
If you enjoy math and you...
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| Lasse Hallstrom |
Many of the comedies I had...
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| Jim Harrison |
I used to get criticized for...
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| Jim Harrison |
I asked a French critic a...
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| Lafcadio Hearn |
French novels generally treat of...
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| Alice Hoffman |
I never plot out my novels...
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| Alice Hoffman |
I never see a novel as...
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| Laurence Housman |
On that other novels followed...
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| Richard Hughes |
Do your bit to save humanity...
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| Evan Hunter |
I try to keep all my...
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| Aldous Huxley |
It's with bad sentiments that...
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| Guillermo C. Infante |
I describe my works as books...
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| Guillermo C. Infante |
I know that many writers have...
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| Guillermo C. Infante |
I have assiduously avoided calling...
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| John Irving |
You don't want to dwell on...
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| John Irving |
I suppose I'm proudest of my...
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| Jerry B. Jenkins |
My dream remains to inform and...
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| Diane Johnson |
But novels are never about...
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| Denis Johnson |
I really enjoy writing novels...
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| Neil Jordan |
I've had three novels published...
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| Jonathan Kellerman |
Time spent researching varies from...
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| Judith Krantz |
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself...
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| Milan Kundera |
The light that radiates from...
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| Milan Kundera |
All great novels, all true...
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| Jhumpa Lahiri |
I've seen novels that have...
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| Anne Lamott |
I've written six novels and...
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| Spike Lee |
I'm just trying to tell a...
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| Ernst Lubitsch |
In Hollywood we acquire the...
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| Brian Lumley |
If I had killed Crow off...
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| Margaret Mahy |
The novels take longer to...
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| Patrick Marber |
I used to go with my...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
I would sooner read a time...
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| Anne McCaffrey |
I did not have a chance...
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| Ismail Merchant |
This is one of his most...
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| Mary Wortley Montagu |
Writers of novels and romance...
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| Toni Morrison |
I don't write -ist novels.
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| Nicholas Mosley |
It always strikes me how...
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| Nicholas Mosley |
After these three novels I...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
I have often noticed that...
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| Nursultan Nazarbayev |
In the past, it was only...
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| Jeremy Northam |
All the great novels, all the...
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| John O'Hara |
They say great themes make...
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| Kenzaburo Oe |
I am one of the writers...
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| Michael Ondaatje |
I don't see novels ending with...
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| Amos Oz |
All of my novels are...
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| Ruth Park |
The world is full of novels...
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| Manuel Puig |
I write novels because there...
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| Manuel Puig |
I have written every one of...
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| Salvatore Quasimodo |
The writer of stories or of...
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| Satyajit Ray |
I've made seventeen or eighteen...
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| Mordecai Richler |
I obviously prefer writing novels...
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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 |
Movies have to handle time...
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| George Saintsbury |
Between Scott on the earlier...
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| George Sand |
Life resembles a novel more...
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| Jose Saramago |
In effect I am not a...
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| Nathalie Sarraute |
I have often heard that the...
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| Friedrich Von Schlegel |
Novels are the Socratic dialogues...
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| Friedrich Von Schlegel |
Novels tend to end as the...
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| Sidney Sheldon |
I think that's because believable...
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| Sidney Sheldon |
Writing novels is the most...
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| Hu Shih |
The rise of the dramas in...
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| Hu Shih |
Within my own life, I read...
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| Dan Simmons |
But I think, and hope, that...
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| John Sladek |
In most conventional novels, God...
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| John Sladek |
Most publishers seem very reluctant...
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| Todd Solondz |
I mean, there are many other...
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| Terry Southern |
Someone wrote a piece about...
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| Nicholas Sparks |
By reading a lot of novels...
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| Nicholas Sparks |
I do not use profanity in...
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| George Stephen |
Actually, the 14 novels were...
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| George Stephen |
In the first year, 1988, I...
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| George Stephen |
For the novels I wrote before...
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| Bruce Sterling |
I do have two data identities...
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| Peter Straub |
The actual Blue Rose murders...
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| Peter Straub |
There were a lot of adventure...
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| Quentin Tarantino |
If I really considered myself...
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| Donna Tartt |
My novels aren't really generated...
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| Donna Tartt |
I've written only two novels...
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| Donna Tartt |
There's an expectation these days...
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| Rose Tremain |
Perhaps, all writers walk such...
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| Anthony Trollope |
But then in novels the most...
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| Scott Turow |
All my novels are about the...
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| Anne Tyler |
It seems to me that good...
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| Anne Tyler |
I spend about a year between...
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| Anne Tyler |
I save the best of myself...
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| Anne Tyler |
I consciously try to end my...
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| Matthew Vaughn |
I like the idea of making...
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| Gore Vidal |
Sex is. There is nothing more...
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| Joseph Wambaugh |
When I wrote The Onion Field...
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| Irvine Welsh |
When I first started to get...
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| Rebecca West |
I wonder if we are all...
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| Patrick White |
I developed the habit of...
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| Patrick White |
I continued writing the bad...
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| Edmund White |
I didn't want to write a...
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| Alex Winter |
I take a lot from everywhere...
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| Jeanette Winterson |
I hated historical novels with...
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| Frederick Wiseman |
I don't like to read novels...
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| P. G. Wodehouse |
Every author really wants to...
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| Tobias Wolff |
I believe that the short story...
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| Tobias Wolff |
You have to be kind of...
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