#novel

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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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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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt. ↗

— John le Carre

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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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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Michael Cunningham

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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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My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush". ↗

— Craig Thompson

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