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- Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read
- It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips… — Anne Tyler
- I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen
- It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. — Aldous Huxley
- I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the… — Terry McMillan
- Good novels are not written, they're rewritten! — Michael Crichton
- Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian
- Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell