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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson
Character
Book
World
Single
About
Writer
Written
Read
Single Person
Years
Truly
Person
Sixty
Where
Literary
Center
Place
Which
Novel
Imagine
My favorite classic novel may be 'The Invisible Man.' It's smart and genuinely funny. Otherwise, my favorite character is probably Frankenstein's Monster/Frankenstein the Monster.
Adam Rex
Funny
Character
Man
Smart
Otherwise
Monster
Frankenstein
Favorite
Classic
Invisible
Genuinely
May
Novel
I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.
Adora Svitak
You
Writing
World
Better
Big
Think
Keys
Releasing
Dream
Dream Big
Could
Ideas
Know
Greatest
Afraid
Your
Novel
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
Adrian McKinty
First
Few
Proper
Had
Longer
Pieces
Dead
Well
Came
May
Stories
Novel
Published
'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.
Adrian McKinty
Best
Man
High
Castle
Still
Novel
The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
Adrian McKinty
Me
You
First
Everyone
Immediately
Hooked
Proper
Delighted
Mystery
David
Read
Cover
End
Did
Where
Which
Orient
Peter
Novel
Express
Recall
To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
Adrian Tomine
Me
Yourself
Made
Fears
Big
Style
Locking
Through
Recurring
Wrong
Halfway
Doing
Huge
Getting
Going
Oh
Which
Choice
Graphic
Novel
Nightmare
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
Alain de Botton
Love
Writing
Rather
Uncomfortable
Than
Personal
Essay
Fiction
Novel
The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.
Alan Cheuse
Long
Dedication
Thriller
Hypnotic
Disappeared
Between
Journalists
New
Period
Were
Covered
Mexico
Hugely
List
Either
Pages
Who
Novel
Nearly
Two
I invented the historical spy novel.
Alan Furst
Invented
Historical
Spy
Novel
I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.
Alan Furst
Character
Conversation
Book
Three
Mysteries
Exactly
Unbelievably
Gene
Hackman
Like
Contemporary
Wrote
Looks
Amazingly
Spy
Movie
Then
Derivative
Novel
Based
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
Alan Furst
Me
Brilliant
Control
Write
He
Taught
Mechanics
Novel
You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
Alan Furst
You
Heart
Passion
Write
Novel
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
Alan Furst
Own
Think
Honestly
Invented
My Own
Genre
Historical
Spy
Novel
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
Alan Moore
Long
Ways
Out
Cartoonist
Entire
Diversion
Underground
Maybe
Wanted
Groovy
Graphic
Many
Novel
Originally
Bring
Career
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan Paton
You
Worth
South Africa
Wrote
Concern
Issues
South
Africa
Which
Central
Novel
Publishing
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
Alan Rickman
Saying
Me
Better
Will
Every
Sympathy
Say
Bit
Out
About
Cross
Mystery
Write
Writers
Never
Beyond
Make
Edit
How
Any
Move
Where
Story
Novel
Play
Here
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.
Alastair Reynolds
Crime
Intrusion
Some
Point
Write
Weirdness
Straight
Novel
Ever
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
Book
Crime
First
Enjoy
Think
Took
Books
Saw
Characters
Some
About
Genre
Read
First Time
How
Were
Been
May
Realise
Worked
Page
Used
Novel
Started
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.
Alastair Reynolds
Experience
Reading
Group
Books
Read
Novel
I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.
Alastair Reynolds
Hope
Independent
House
Novel
Functions
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
People
Think
Everyone
Books
Bought
Velvet
Come
Wrote
Underground
Equivalent
Did
Literary
Who
Many
Novel
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.
Albert S. Ruddy
Face
Important
Atlas
Never
Most
The Most Important
Century
Novel
Film
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
Aleksandar Hemon
Me
Book
Slightly
No Difference
Shapes
Between
Just
Difference
Different
Stories
Different Shapes
Novel
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
Aleksandar Hemon
Me
Kind
Some
Someone
Superiority
Writer
Implies
Calls
Inherent
Novel
Novelist
Resist
'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.
Alex Garland
Mind
Respects
Some
Beach
Subversive
Novel
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