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

I Think Myself Novels Professor
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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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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Sometimes People Write Novels
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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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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 give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
Gift Gifts Give Like
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

Books Enjoy Learnt Like
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Pine Item After World
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Always Awards Battle Between
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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
Art Art Form Deserve Form
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Author Fortunate His Lifetime
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Been Book Break Could
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I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
Novels Read Bible Learn
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

About Edit Everything Influenced
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Author Really Letters Printed
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Convinced Ever Novels Only
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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.

Also Any Because Critical
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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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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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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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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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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.

About Actually Anything Because
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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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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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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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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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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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