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«If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.»
«Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.»
Author: J. Russell Lynes (Writer) | About: Journalism | Keywords: journalist, novel
«In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.»
«Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.»
Author: George Sand | Keywords: novel, novels, resemble, resembles
«Life is God's novel. Let him write it.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer | About: Life | Keywords: novel
«I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.»
Author: Truman Capote (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Ideas, Words, Work | Keywords: novel
«If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.»
«I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.»
«If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?»
«I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.»

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