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Novel Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly,…
- I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture…
- I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that…
- I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
- Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is…
- Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high…
- You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast…
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