#novel

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. ↗

— Bille August

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Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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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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