#novel

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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The fire burns as the novel taught it how. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. ↗

— Peter Straub

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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. ↗

— Amy Tan

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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#any #complete #complete freedom #fit #freedom

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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