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Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
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I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
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My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
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Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
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The difference does not lie in the things that news does that novels do not do, but in the things that novels… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
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I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
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Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories?… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
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Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
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The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet'… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
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