#novel

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. ↗

— John Irving

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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

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The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way. ↗

— Donald McKay

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I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

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