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I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
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..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
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My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
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And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
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Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find… — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that,… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
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