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

— Ernst Lubitsch

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While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

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The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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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

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One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#any #attachment #challenges #clean #doing

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#arrives #each #his #life #man

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way. ↗

— Donald McKay

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