#novel

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. ↗

— Truman Capote

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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt. ↗

— John le Carre

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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. ↗

— Joyce Cary

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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

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I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush". ↗

— Craig Thompson

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I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one. ↗

— Diane Duane

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