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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Edward Bond
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I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
Melissa Marr
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
Nancy Reagan
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I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.


Isaac Bashevis Singer
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos
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No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.


Umera Ahmad
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It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
Ruth Ozeki
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
Edmund White
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.


Jose Saramago
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.


Peter Bichsel
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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.


Christopher Buckley
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet
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Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.
Francis Collins
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I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
Tom T. Hall
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'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
Jennifer Egan
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Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.
John Irving
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.
Rita Mae Brown
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