#novels

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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.


Haruki Murakami


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At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.


John M. Ford


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I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.


Alex Winter


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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.


Jeanette Winterson


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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.


P. G. Wodehouse


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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.


James Wolcott


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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.


Edmund White


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I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.


Steve Zahn


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If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.


Mark Haddon


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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.


Mark Haddon


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