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I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery… — E. O. Wilson
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. — Doris Lessing
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land… — Bharati Mukherjee
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… — Rajneesh
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other… — Rajneesh
When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a… — Thomas Dolby
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more… — Gish Jen
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury
A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. — Sir Harry Lauder
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that… — Leonard Bishop
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — Unknown Author
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. — Unknown Author
Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there,… — James Alexander Thom
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but… — John Green
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history… — J. B. Priestley
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the… — Helen Fisher

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