#novel

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. ↗

— Evan Hunter

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In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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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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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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