Novels Quotes
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I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
Nathan Lowell
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I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
Bentley Little
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I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.
Dennis Green
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It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.
George Ritzer
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I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Kevin Costner
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
Haruki Murakami
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I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.
Brian Christian
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My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
Sharon Kay Penman
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki Murakami
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Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
Saul David
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Jonathan Dee
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We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
Elliott Colla