#novels

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity. ↗

— DMX

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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I never even had the time to read novels. ↗

— George McGovern

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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#closure #ending #i #novels #real

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. ↗

— Rand Paul

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