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A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way. ↗


— Haruki Murakami


#short-stories #writing-process #nature

Bila dari dulu aku tahu sebuah tabrakan bisa mempertemukanku dengan wanita cantik sepertimu, aku tak akan mengemudi terlalu hati-hati. ↗


— Francisca Todi


#relationship #romance #romance-novels #romantic #romantic-comedy

Karamel. Aku baru memperhatikan, warna matanya coklat keemasan, seperti sirup karamel yang selalu kucampurkan di kopiku. ↗


— Francisca Todi


#relationship #romance #romance-novels #romantic #romantic-comedy

Ladies. We've got a rat in our midst. ↗


— Sydnie Riley


#romantic-comedy #sherry-james #romantic

If the worst you can say about an otherwise sweet-natured and pleasant romance novel is that the main characters are just too wholesome to suit you and your bitter, bitter, cat-infested, 7-years-friendless-and-romantically-barren life, you should probably just eat a fucking cupcake and settle in to wait for El Señor to take you away from this place on the wings of angels who all bear a marked resemblance to a young Rob Lowe. ↗


— Julio-Alexi Genao


#nature

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. ↗


— G.K. Chesterton


#novels #reading #science

Bagaimana bisa kau tidak menyukai hujan? Padahal hujan selalu mendekatkan kita. Oh, aku lupa. Kau mungkin tidak menganggapku sepenting itu. Aku bukan pemeran utama dalam lakon hidupmu. Aku hanya figuran yang hanya sesekali dibutuhkan. ↗


— Jee


#fiction-novel #romance #romance-novels #romantic #swearing

Aku mencintainya tanpa diketahui. Aku mencintainya dalam diam. Aku mencintainya dalam satu sudut pandang. Aku mencintainya di satu sisi. Ya, aku percaya. Jika takdirku adalah dirimu, kau akan memilihku. Nanti. ↗


— Jee


#fiction-novel #romance #romance-novels #romantic #sweet

Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person. The reason is they’re categorized as Romances, which is where they are shelved in bookstores. Though I have no justification for avoiding it, the romance section is an area in bookstores I seldom wander into. Her novels also have traditional-looking romance book covers, which are occasionally a bit off-putting to us mighty manly men. Then again, who knows? I don’t carry many biases where good storytelling is concerned. I’m willing to find it anywhere, as too many of my friends will attest, when I try to drag them to wonderful movies that they aren’t eager to go to, simply because they fall under the chick-flick rubric. So, in any case, I’m glad I did meet Marjorie Liu in person, because it would have been a shame to miss out on the work of an author this talented due to whatever degree of cultural prejudices I might still possess. I trust you who read this won’t make the same mistake. ↗


— Bill Willingham


#prejudices #romance-novels #stereotypes #storytelling #men

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) ↗


— John Irving


#craft #novels #victims #writing #writing-craft






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