#novel

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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Novel writing wrecks homes. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. ↗

— John Fowles

#common #create #many #need #novelists

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know? ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. ↗

— David Frum

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Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. ↗

— David Frum

#decisions #door #go #heads #inside

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#great #mentioned #mexican #mexico #novels

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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