#novels

I don't very often read novels. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. ↗

— John Irving

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