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A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer. Romola Garai

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Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. Rose Tremain

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I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. Rose Tremain

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In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous. Rudolfo Anaya

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Lindsay Hatton's novel 'Monterey Bay' so beautifully evokes the landscape of the titular locale, you'll feel transported to Northern California even if you're reading it on the bus on your morning commute. Rumaan Alam

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Russell Lynes

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The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well. Russell Smith

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. Ruth Ozeki

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It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4. Ruth Ozeki

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Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language. Ruth Rendell

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I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out. Ryan North

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me. Sadie Jones

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We all want to make money and have a good life. But if your passion is writing, and you want to write a novel, I don't think you should sit in your home and wait for someone to give you the opportunity. You write it. Salim Akil

I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change. Sally Rooney

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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing. Sam Shepard

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. Samuel E. Morison

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Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel. Sara Paretsky

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I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first. Sarah Hall

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At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people. Sarah MacLean

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored? Sarah MacLean

On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. Sarah Pinborough

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I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third Class Superhero.' Sarah Weinman

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