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" Quotes and Sayings About a novel

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

America Becoming Belong Educated
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Because Craft Finish Hard
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
Begin Beginning Continue End
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
Full Given Novel Play
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Affect Beasts Different Different Way
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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Became Denied Insult Life
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Believe Believes Effective Everyone
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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

Artistic Down Going High
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I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Also Learn Novel Play
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Books Closed Follow Novel
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Burden Culture Entire Kind
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Anything Images Never Novel
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Surface Fully Home Like
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Also Any Because City
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Awake Continue Dream Everyday
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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Cats I Write Just Like
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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

About Am Country Feel
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When You Pick Up
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Everybody Hard Keep Novel
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

About Detest Except Make
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Understand Person Years Write
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
Everything Novel Resist Tell
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Imagery Important Makes Most
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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Anyway Good GoodIdea Idea
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Becomes Enough Hands He
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I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Books Brief Collected Composed
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

Person First Novel Must
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Love Men Novel Short
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Book Excuses Find Like
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Consider Did Middle Myself
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life resembles Novels
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Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Novel Great distance
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Reason Existence Represent life
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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Bill Bill Clinton Biography Clinton
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.

History A novel People The author
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Novel Mirror Road
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