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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.


Umera Ahmad
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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
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
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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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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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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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God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.


Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
Hilary Mantel
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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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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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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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The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.
Henry B. Eyring
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.


George Sand
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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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I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Gregory David Roberts
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.


Ted Rall
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In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.
Robert Silverberg
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
Umberto Eco
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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
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
Andrew Greeley
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