#novel

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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The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

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My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity. ↗

— DMX

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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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