#nov

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. ↗

— Robert Iger

#creativity #heart #innovation #soul

We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows. ↗

— Robert Iger

#delighted #experience #fans #innovative #new

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature. ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #paranormal-romance #rose #urban-fantasy #vampire

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #novel #paranormal #romance #humor

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#novelist #science-fiction #humor