#novel

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ↗

— Patrick White

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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#novels #reader #stick #teeth

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#better #i #knew #my own #name

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #careful #economy #housewife #like

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#based #comedies #different #experience #experiences

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#good #makes #novels #sentiments

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#great #novels #true

Only in a novel are all things given full play. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#full #given #novel #only #play

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#easier #generally #good #heroes #novelists