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Novel Quotes by Anonymous

76 Novel quotes by Anonymous

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A novel that shows how the world truly is, how characters think, and how events happen, is praised as a true reflection of life. The quotes also argue that stories should carry consequences into later books, unlike many detective tales. They warn against crime novels where actions lack real stakes.

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I think of my novels as entertainments.

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“THE VACATIONERS: A NOVEL”

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“Careful, or you'll end up in novel.”

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I'm not a bad person.

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History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

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No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

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Kiss me a paragraph, and I will reply with a novel.

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Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

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“Cinta masih sama, tetapi keadaan memaksa untuk bersikap berbeda”

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“Splendid . . . a novel for anyone who has a sharp eye and ear for life.”

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Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!

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“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal…

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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the…

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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything…

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I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

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Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

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Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

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The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane,…

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If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth…

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I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to…

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It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that…

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“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop.…

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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a…

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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of…

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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person.…

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Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary…

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The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,…

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A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel…

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“Sam Anderson. “The Greatest Novel.” New York Magazine (outline). Jan. 9, 2011. New York is, famously, the everything bagel of megalopolises—one of…

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Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that…

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What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom…

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Love is a way of living so how can our souls be healthy enough to live without love. I will continue to…

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Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s…

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

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Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.

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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

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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…

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The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.

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