#novels

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. ↗

— George Sand

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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#because #effect #essayist #essays #failed

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#age #both #characters #i #i tried

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#fiction #hope #i #i think #novels

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. ↗

— John Sladek

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Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#both #characters #first #i #i am

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. ↗

— John Sladek

#collections #disguised #most #novels #often

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? ↗

— Arthur Smith

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