"Novels are about other people and poems are…" — Philip Larkin

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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
• Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These… — Chinua Achebe
• I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's… — Margaret Atwood
• I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel… — Margaret Atwood
• The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when… — 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
• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
• For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own… — Paul Auster
• 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

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