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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
Luke Davies
Life
Real Life
Drawing
Real
Historians
Same
Which
Novelists
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
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
M. K. Hobson
Me
People
School
Some People
Believe
High
Some
High School
Writers
Short
Middle
Middle School
Short Story
Story
Really
Naturally
Novelists
Novels
Started
Noir was a brainchild of the United States. And most of the creators of classic noir - novelists and screenwriters, directors and cameramen - were men. Women were their mysterious, sometimes villainous, always seductive objects of desire.
Margo Jefferson
Women
Sometimes
Men
States
Seductive
Classic
Objects
Directors
Mysterious
Noir
Most
Always
Were
Novelists
Creators
United
United States
Desire
When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Me
Generation
Lost
Few
Young
Faulkner
He
Particular
Read
Reader
Still
Passionate
Lot
Fitzgerald
American
Authors
Means
Who
Sartre
Hemingway
Novelists
It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.
Max Richter
Music
Thought
Say
Alive
Characters
Find
Never
Feel
Feels
Like
How
Making
Material
Doing
Novelists
Things
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read.
Michael Cadnum
Creative
Writing
Language
Challenge
Practice
Reading
Met
Alive
Possibilities
Classroom
Poets
Take
Since
Read
Am
Real
Been
Interest
Much
Persuaded
Teaching
Creative Writing
Serious
Including
Novelists
Bringing
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
Michael Palin
Day
People
Thought
Saw
One Day
Admirable
Could
Maybe
Being
Them
Novelists
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.
Michelle Dean
Life
Good
You
Strong
Petty
Elsewhere
Characterized
Plot
Facts
Because
Reads
Handle
Manage
Often
Literary
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Transport
Who
Novelists
Away
Vacation
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera
Time
Great
Man
Light
Old
Will
Astonish
Dim
Never
Thus
However
Perpetually
Discoveries
Existence
Cease
May
Human
Forgotten
Being
Human Existence
Novelists
Novels
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.
Neil Cross
You
Natural
Habitat
Enjoy
Once
See
Pretty
Understand
Always
Get
Them
Worked
Company
Novelists
Species
Publisher
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.
Neil Gaiman
Book
Think
Say
Those
Out
Find
Kinds
About
Something
Point
Point Of View
Write
Suspect
Order
Then
Us
View
Who
Novel
Novelists
Thing
Two
There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.
Nick Harkaway
Writing
Will
Few
Benefit
Shame
Could
Most
Because
Nor
Suspect
Modern
Fiction
Many
Wary
Works
Novel
Serious
Including
Novelists
Now
Ever
I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
Orhan Pamuk
Work
Me
Healthy
Think
Feel
Hours
Disciplined
Always
Lot
Child
Should
Working
Novelists
Playing
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker
Me
Balance
Husband
First
Conviction
Medium
Trickery
About
Something
Between
Sincerity
Also
Very
Familiar
Which
Grandmother
Fascinates
Novelists
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
Pat Conroy
Become
Meet
Saw
Kids
Poets
Inspired
Write
Simply
Were
Festival
Theater
Movies
Who
Novelists
Now
In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
Pete Hamill
Good
Class
People
Writing
Worth
Guarded
Everyone
Respectable
Guild
Eat
Guys
More
Poets
Had
Failed
Became
Always
Were
Get
Did
Reporters
Middle
Middle Class
Uptight
Newspaper
Much
Paid
Speaks
Who
Novelists
Suddenly
Tones
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.
Peter York
Life
Great
First
Out
Study
Journalism
New
Like
French
Am
Cling
Get
Order
Fan
Laid
Century
Tom
Novelists
Basic
Set
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.
Peter York
You
Reading
Enough
Books
Once
Run
Inside
About
More
Never
True
Feel
Like
Know
Around
How
Real
Go
Been
Discovered
Than
Author
Get
Often
Just
Stopped
Literary
Anywhere
Company
Novel
Novelists
Novels
Things
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Philip Roth
Life
You
World
Live
Assure
Easier
Would
Writer
Make
Discretion
Cannot
Unfortunately
Anyway
Prefer
Novelists
I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have to be novelists or screenwriters.
Richard K. Morgan
Think
Those
More
Writers
Talented
Involved
Industry
Course
Yes
Get
Should
Novelists
The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.
Russell Smith
Fine
Well
Doing
Just
Who
Novel
Novelists
I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.
Ruth Ozeki
Edge
Easily
Cross
More
Fact
Readily
Always
Line
Than
Fiction
Used
Certainly
Novelists
Film
Played
Filmmaker
Filmmakers
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.
Ruth Rendell
Writing
Sex
Rare
Philip
Some
About
Get
Who
Roth
Novelists
Away
James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
Sarah Hall
Devil
Would
Talents
Souls
Sell
James
Page
Novelists
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
Sarah Hall
Few
Having
Writers
Clear
Judged
Often
Short
Short Story
Story
Novelists
Competitions
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