#books

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#believe #books #could #had #hardly

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience. ↗

— Sylvia Day

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There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#aristocracy #backyard #books #english #long

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development. ↗

— Sandra Brown

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Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time. ↗

— Dick Bruna

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