#novelist

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves. ↗

— Pat Conroy

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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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