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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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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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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

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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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I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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