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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.


John McGahern


#also #beautiful #fact #form #formal

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.


H. L. Mencken


#historian #novelist #unsuccessful

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.


Haruki Murakami


#am #awake #because #change #continue

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.


Haruki Murakami


#am #country #feel #i #i am

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.


Jodi Picoult


#alone #books #change #copies #feel

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.


George Plimpton


#hill #interviewed #novelist #young

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.


Chaim Potok


#chip #create #figure #find #following

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.


J. B. Priestley


#books #fellow #finds #his #i

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?


Milan Kundera


#existence #explores #given #his #historic

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.


Milan Kundera


#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries






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