#nov

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#basis #character #creating #else #important

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alive #am #america #character #city

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. ↗

— Amy Tan

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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#any #complete #complete freedom #fit #freedom

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#big #enjoy #i #long #novel

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#believe #experience #fringes #funny #funny way

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#decade #each #i #long #novels

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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