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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
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Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
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Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
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I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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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.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
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