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Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores. Jo Nesbo
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it. Joan D. Vinge
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I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. Joan Didion
Strength Physical Physical Strength Sure Undertake Novel
Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it. Joan Didion
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You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. Joan Didion
You Focus Throw Overheard Line Novel
I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel. Jody Lynn Nye
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then. Joe Haldeman
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Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. Joe Klein
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What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like. Joe Klein
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I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling. Joe Meno
Me You Opportunity Feeling Lost Enjoy Final Took Final Cut Tell See Write Students Make Although Going Woods While Cut Pages Novel
Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel. Joe Meno
Work You Important Realistic Corporate Press Promoting Promotion Small Terms Important Thing Sales Author Expectations Whether Your Novel Thing
'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else. Joe Morton
Good Heart Opportunity Thought Think Else Properties More Chase Never Idea Particular Know Read Became Deal Got How Intellectual Than Just Movie Anything Loved Anything Else Unfortunately Really Paycheck Novel Necessarily Good Idea
In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters. Joe R. Lansdale
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When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one. Joe R. Lansdale
Savage Three Before Later Write Never Wrote Years Intended Whenever Next Novel Season Second
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that. Joel Silver
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The novel is resilient, and so are novelists. John Banville
Novel Novelists Resilient
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic. John Boyne
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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel. John Burnham Schwartz
Health Home History Become Gone Indeed Severe Would Outcome Stayed More Had Investment Economy Perhaps Proved Than Intended Blow Banker The History Of Literature Japan Might English English Literature Novel
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre. John Clute
Science More Written Most Genre Science Fiction Stigma Labeled Escaped Than Being Fiction Anything Predictable Far Novel Novels Professors Routine Set University
Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me. John Corey Whaley
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By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary to the other approaches which have developed over the same period. John Cornforth
Nature Become Other Approaches Complementary Possible Physical Investigate Developed Thus Over Combining Period Chemical Same Which Manner Novel Biochemical Techniques
I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel. John Fusco
Time Great Me Feeling Great American Everything Television Television Series New Like Because Felt Becoming Got Were Lining Up American Polo Story Novel Series Right
I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end. John Gordon Sinclair
Me Crime Made Big Christopher Emotional Never Feel Read Big Fan End Fan Novel
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. John Green
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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. John Green
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There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. John Hodgman
Earnest Like Deadly Tradition American Fiction Social Novel Serious
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