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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
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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.

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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Beat Had Inside Me
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

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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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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Commend Good Good Taste Like
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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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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Consider Did Middle Myself
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life resembles Novels
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Central Contemporary Describe Facts
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The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Absolutely Curiosity Information Mainstream
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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Anything Liked Only Place
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Anything Block Felt Had
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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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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Certain Need Novels Road
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Level Like Novels Opera
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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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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Advice Beginning Bit Hammerstein
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

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Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

Short poem Resonance Entire novel
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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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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Commercial General General Public Hard
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Gentleman Good Lady Must
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick.

Ladies Guard against Read novels Tell them
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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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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

The joy Reading fiction The novel Belongs
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

No happiness In love The end
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Romance Very pretty In novels A life
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Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Where No Novelty There
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Like reading Provides Insight Human behavior
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavor of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Novels Give you The matrix Emotions
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If we work together, we can win the battle against Novel Coronavirus.
Work together Can win The battle
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Modesty Reward Life Exploited
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Writing Problems How Narrative
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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Dream Fiction Movies Ideas
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There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.

Reasons Write Create World
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We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Read Novel Page Images
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One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel

Crazy Write Great novel
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Problem Writing Casualty
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