I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages,… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
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The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
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I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The… — J. G. Ballard 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
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge… — Haruki Murakami 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
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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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