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- Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories…
- 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…
- The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
- The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would…
- My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
- John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a…
- A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light…
- Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more…
- It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.
- Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction…
- Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the…
- The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of…
- There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in…
- The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.
- Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and…
- Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
- Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
- Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to…
- Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them…
- Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention…
- Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong,…
- I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.
- Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done?…
- As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to…
- One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to…
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- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood
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- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
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- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster
- I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker