#novel

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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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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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

#buddhism #buddhist #comes #created #deeply

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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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

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

— Michael Cunningham

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