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I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert
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… — Unknown Author
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and… — Harold Brodkey
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin,… — Steven Saylor
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels,… — Alasdair Gray
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. — Alasdair Gray
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write… — Natalie Goldberg
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. — Demetri Martin
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people. — Henning Mankell
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks… — Ariel Gore
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or… — Satyajit Ray
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something… — Milton Babbitt
I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what… — Neil Jordan
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels.… — Patrick Marber
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,… — Anais Nin
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and… — Rajneesh
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like… — Daniel Handler
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.… — Milan Kundera
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome"… — Tom Peters
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a… — Thom Mayne
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in… — Harold Brodkey
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky… — David Bergen

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