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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
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When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
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When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day,… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
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It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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If you're working on a novel, whatever you do, don't say, 'I am almost finished with my novel.' It's worse than chanting… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
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A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
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'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
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