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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
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Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Julian Barnes
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.
Joe Meno
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I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.
Jess Walter
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A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.
Wes Bentley
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Isabel Allende
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Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.


Richard M. DeVos
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.


David Byrne
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.


George Sand
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I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.
Lily James
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.


W. Somerset Maugham
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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
Laurence Housman
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Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.
John Corey Whaley
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.


Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.


Zane Grey
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I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.
Miranda Raison
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.


Gary Allan
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We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.
Piet Mondrian
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Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
Christina Baker Kline