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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may…
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In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
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The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
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Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
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Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.
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Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier…
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The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right…
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Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up…
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Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.
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A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may…
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A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer…
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I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as…
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My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.
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I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating…
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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
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