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Novel Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and…
- I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
- Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that…
- E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights,…
- Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them.…
- If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will…
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- I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker