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I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
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All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
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The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
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A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
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A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
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I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
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I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
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Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
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