#novel

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. ↗

— John McGahern

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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

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I never even had the time to read novels. ↗

— George McGovern

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