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Tag Name "Novel" (2399)

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Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
Akhil Sharma
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Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
Philip Larkin
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Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.
Anna Quindlen
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Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Novel writing is like heroin addiction it takes everything you've got.
James N. Frey
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Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.
Zadie Smith
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Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.
Joan Didion
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Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
Joe Klein
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Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds few of their heroines are happily disposed of.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.
Arundhati Roy
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Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.
Nuala O'Faolain
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
Zadie Smith
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Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
Rebecca Miller
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Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
Barbara Pym
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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
Ambrose Bierce
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Novels often have leisurely openings a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
Andrew Davies
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
Doris Lessing
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
Paul Auster
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Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
Graham Swift
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Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
Paul Berg
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Novels with a thesis don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to show something, that want to argue something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.
Sergio Chejfec
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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