Quotes 81 till 100 of 106.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
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The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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There was commotion in Roaring Camp. It could not have been a fight, for in 1850 that was not novel enough to have called together the entire settlement.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading.
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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
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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.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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