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#novels

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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.


Octavia Butler


#had #i #novels #them #wanted

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#back #build #collection #feel #finished

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#back #build #collection #feel #finished

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.


Steig Larsson


#consequences #detective #happens #mine #never

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante


#books #calling #i #novels

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.


Ernst Lubitsch


#finest #hollywood #leather #novels #order

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.


Ross MacDonald


#kinds #novels #various #various kinds

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez


#believe #book #exposed #figure #find

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.


Ismail Merchant


#characters #comedy #decided #his #human

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.


Stephenie Meyer


#bad #bad guys #characters #community #everybody






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