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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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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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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. ↗

— 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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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. ↗

— Ted Rall

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