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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Poem Novel Ending Open door
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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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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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Black Britain Deal Exist
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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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Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Chance Novelty Source Only
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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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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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

Anxious Been Between Blogging
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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 meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Article Faith Forever Inside
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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.

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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Beach Book Came Couple
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Always Any Complete Complete Freedom
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

About Author Bad Good
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Away Exhausting Far Know
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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.
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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Novel Skeptical Will
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Merit Novelty Originality Sincerity
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
Full Given Novel Play
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Fiction Fiction Writer I Write Novels
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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Action Ever Expect Get
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Adolescent Africa Because Books
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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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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I Think Myself Novels Professor
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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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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction
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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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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Sometimes People Write Novels
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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'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

Anything Anything And Everything Away Been
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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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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Lazy Bored Familiar Craves
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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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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I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
Gift Gifts Give Like
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