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The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.
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John Banville
Irish
Novelist
Born:
Dec 8
,
1945
Topics
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,
Novelists
,
Resilient
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Loathing
Attacked
He
He Or She
Put
Hot
Like
Armor
She
Reviewer
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Expresses
Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
Wayne Dyer
Life
Journey
You
Yourself
Sickness
Practice
Become
Mountains
Meditation
Month
Churches
Pleasure
Visiting
At Least One
Introspective
Hurry
Slower
Give
More
Through
Read
Least
Permission
Quiet
Yoga
Lakes
Places
Your
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Suffer
Museums
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann
Friendship
Relationship
True Friendship
Lust
Dig
Solid
Given
True
Attraction
Often
Romance
Want
Romantic
Form
Novel
Elements
Foundation
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier
Love
Women
Men
Short
Want
Short Story
Story
Novel
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Character
People
Writing
Living
Caricature
Characters
Writer
Create
Should
Novel
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work
Must
Spirit
Poetry
Write
Impression
Tranquility
Order
Novel
I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world.
Marie Rutkoski
Change
Writing
World
Perspective
Sense
Think
Guess
Way
Find
Seeing
Some
Give
Magnificent
Exciting
Most
Unusual
Because
Very
Wonder
Children
Fantasy
Your
Special
Novel
Things
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
Regina Brett
You
Courage
Phone
Better
Single
Lose
Sit
Down
Changes
Enough
Phone Call
Paragraph
Scary
Write
Pounds
Take
Step
Instead
Major
Make
Call
Salad
Friend
Fries
Order
Screening
Want
Next
Novel
Right
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
Other
Eye
Bored
Impatient
Tends
Lazy
Hand
Repetition
Familiar
Shocked
Unexpected
Craves
Novel
Ear
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