#novelist

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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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

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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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

— Donna Tartt

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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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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. ↗

— Eric Carle

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