"The first sentence of every novel should be:……" — Michael Ondaatje

More Every Novel Quotes

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• Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries
• Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the… — Paul Auster
• Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is… — Arthur David Beaty
• Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski
• Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has… — Italo Calvino
• Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. — Jane Smiley
• The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that… — Jose Emilio Pacheco
• I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I… — May Sarton
• There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre
• Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges
• The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless… — Rose Tremain
• Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. — Penelope Lively

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