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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.


Eric Carle


#i #i think #idea #least #novel

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.


Terence Rattigan


#dares #few #his #lose #may

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.


L. Neil Smith


#comes #fear #higher #i #merchants

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period.


Leon Uris


#conquest #loneliness #mitla-pass #novelist #writing

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.


W. H. Auden


#been #believe #ever #fondly #granted

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.


Caleb Carr


#face #fiction #fiction writer #grew #had

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.


Lion Feuchtwanger


#against #blind #both #determined #historian

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.


Leslie Fiedler


#critic #fireman #i #life #met

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.


Leslie Fiedler


#come #him #i #like #mccarthy

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.


Julia Child


#came #country #dying #go #going






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