In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Karena bahagia untuk sesuatu yang tidak nyata itu lebih buruk ketimbang membenci kenyataan yang jelas-jelas ada.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. You can guess what will happen on the next chapter, but you will not know until youre… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Novel-reading is indeed unusually private, unusually personal, unusually intimate. It doesn’t happen out there, in front of our eyes; it happens in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share
Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer… — Anonymous Copy Share
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share
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