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Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow. Louis Sachar

Time Impossible Too Much Slow Lost Every Too Every Time Would Tried Give Seems Take Feel New Like Undertaking Go Quickly Overwhelmed Get Form Much Novel Grow Things Start Chance

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. Louise Brown

Book Nepal About Nonfiction Working Novel

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. Louise Penny

Good Writing Think Finale Exactly Novel

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success. Louise Penny

Life Success Jealous Me Writing Genius Wonderful My Life Nothing Every Too Others Say Tell See Write Self-Absorbed Attempted Had How Am Decade Far Realize Novel Now Applaud

My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away! Luanne Rice

Family Man Too Much Three First Too Nun Sullivan Wildly Tells Give Daughters Mystery Also Renegade Passionate Artists Different Want Story While Much Novel Away Two

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. Lynn Abbey

Me Writing Than Short Short Story Story Much Novel Harder

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. Lynn Abbey

Balance Commitment Writing Made Sense Frankly More Reader Because Spot Dull Get Different Requires Novel Novelists Away Exquisite Two

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down. Lynn Coady

Facebook Vegetables Important Reading Down Every Digestion Our Once Considered Bit Further Ourselves Mental Diversion Take Over Genre Fresh Years Frivolous Fiction Fruits Place Processes Little Convince Novel

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life. Lynn Johnston

Life Good You Tremendous Bad Some Had Part Adventures Know Been Interesting Good And Bad Your Novel

I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries. M. J. Rose

It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published. M. J. Rose

Website Service Gone Hundreds More Put Since Been Up Than Decade Lip Lip Service Authors Then Many Novel Published

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel. M. J. Rose

Writing Seriously Thought First Thirties Took About Never Categories Until Wrote Reader Courses Formal Avid Novel

I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago. M. J. Rose

People Writing Brilliant Big Past Took Concept Involving Learned Always Were Been Years Integrating Years Ago Began Place Interested Theories Fascinated Many Even Novel Including Element Novels Reincarnation Present

Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover. Maggie Stiefvater

You Mood Hunting Find More More And More Write Over Come Ideas Sticks Always Cover Close Want After Pervasive Novel

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. Manuel Puig

Own Facade My Own Unconscious Aesthetic Ultimately Personal Creates Novel

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. Manuel Puig

Great Telling About French Sort Occupation Always Were German Wondered Authors Roman Interested Nouveau Novel Why Thing

If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull. Marc Laidlaw

Good You Game Yourself Single Lose Way Plenty Out See House Armour Same Difference Where Want Story Decorate Your Games Skull Novel Fill Player Dragon

I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable. Marge Simon

Long Poetry Emotion Write Writer Never Share Like Readily Accessible Provides Often Flash Fiction Wanted Interchangeable Whether Canvas Forms Even Novel Express Play

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead. Marge Simon

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story. Maria Semple

Time Needs You Pain Think Some About Given Through Going Represent Just Where Story Really Moment Novel Specific

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