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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
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In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
Wolkenatlas (2008) 365 -
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
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Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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