#novel

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader. ↗

— Elizabeth George

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I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. ↗

— David Duchovny

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It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. ↗

— Richard Helms

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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. ↗

— William Golding

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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

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I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing. ↗

— Howard Gordon

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Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#been #before #circuit #come #doing

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. ↗

— Sue Grafton

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