"I had novels to write, so I wrote…" — Octavia Butler

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• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until… — Paul Auster
• I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's… — Margaret Atwood
• There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
• Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result… — Paul Auster
• I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker
• At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
• The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page,… — Anthony Bourdain
• My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on… — Ray Bradbury
• Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention… — Anita Brookner
• Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels… — Geraldine Brooks
• Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing… — Rita Mae Brown

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