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• The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

  Wole Soyinka

  Aggravation, Novelists, Be Considerate

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• I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Church, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Romance, Would Be, Rejected

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• By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, Writing, Asking Questions

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• I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

  Danielle Steel

  Years, Literature, Firsts

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• The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

  Wallace Stevens

  Fire, Taught

  Wallace Stevens, Jos e Rodr iguez Feo, Beverly Coyle, Alan Filreis (1986). “Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo”, p.19, Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press

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• Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Feet, Littles, Nervous

  "DC Entertainment Returning to 'Watchmen' with 7-Book Prequel Series (Exclusive Image)". Interview with Borys KIt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Seven

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Screenplays, Ifs

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• My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

  Donna Tartt

  Long, Together, Different

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• A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

  Paul Theroux

  Essence, Form, Capture

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• Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Writing, Giving

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Years, Hook, Red

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• I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Creative, Focus, Sublime

  Ayelet Waldman (2017). “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life”, p.13, Knopf

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• I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Poet, Feels

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• Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Experience, Stories

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Self, People

  "'Proud non-reader' rapper Kanye West turns author". Interview with Mark Egan, www.reuters.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

  Rebecca West

  People, Wonder, Composing

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• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  A. N. Wilson

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

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• In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Southern, Wanted

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  E. O. Wilson

  People, Nonfiction

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Careers, Ideas

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’ (INTERVIEW, EXCERPT)". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

  Tom Wolfe

  Waiting, Looks, Firsts

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• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Scandal, Complicated

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Money, Writing, Detest

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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