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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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I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. ↗

— Tom Baker

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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

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If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. ↗

— Antony Beevor

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