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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ↗

— Yann Martel

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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball. ↗

— Jay Mohr

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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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