#novel

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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A good novel editor is invisible. ↗

— Terri Windling

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I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. ↗

— Alex Winter

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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good. ↗

— James Wolcott

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And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be. ↗

— Edmund White

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