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They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed - all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's his response. And he's laughing, of course, behind his hand at the effect he gets.


Philip K. Dick


#novelists #writing #art

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


#believe #book #exposed #figure #find

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.


John le Carre


#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.


Rebecca Harding Davis


#great #may #more #never #novelists

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.


Ken Follett


#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

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

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.


Quentin Tarantino


#any #complete #complete freedom #fit #freedom

As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.


Patrick White


#novelists #novels #voss-novel #dating

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads






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