Novelist Quotes
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I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
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I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
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We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
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I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.
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Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
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I think I've made a commitment to being a political novelist, which in some ways isn't fashionable.
