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I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is… — Rose Tremain
One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you… — Michael Ondaatje
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the… — Ilya Ehrenburg
I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag… — Kevin Costner
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later,… — Eileen Myles
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are… — Anne Bronte
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories… — Mavis Gallant
I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if… — Penelope Fitzgerald
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… — Unknown Author
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet taken… — Mikhail Bakhtin
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we… — Banksy
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not… — Azar Nafisi
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my… — Jim Harrison
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading… — Cheryl Strayed
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels;… — Barbara Pym
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have… — Anthony Burgess
Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes… — Phil Cousineau
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of… — Lynn Abbey
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it… — Orson Scott Card

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