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I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.
Sebastian Horsley
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.


Laird Barron
I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
Pankaj Mishra
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.


Pietro Aretino
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Tamora Pierce
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa
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I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.


Logan Browning
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.


Jean Cocteau
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
Peter Ackroyd
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I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
Kristin Armstrong
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.
Graham Swift
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.


Edward Snowden
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
Susan Straight
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I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.
Barbara Mandrell
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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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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.
John Irving
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
A. A. Milne
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Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.
Joan Didion
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I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.


Donald Berwick
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