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«Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.»
«This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.»
«Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.»
«What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.»
«The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: novel, represent
«The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.»
«This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.»
«When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.»
«The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.»

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