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«Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: bring to, novel
«One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.»
Author: Gloria Naylor | About: Literature | Keywords: novel, resonances, Return to
«My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.»
Author: Thomas Helm | About: Books | Keywords: Begin, chapter, chapters, dreading, last, novel, test, The Last
«There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are.»
«Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.»
«Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.»
«The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.»
«Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!»
«San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.»
«There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.»

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