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If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience. ↗

— Brian Lumley

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. ↗

— Patrick Marber

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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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