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Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they see fit.
Sarah Weinman
Reality
Free
Whatever
See
Write
Roam
Fit
Close
Want
Should
Novelists
Imaginations
It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.
Scott Spencer
Time
Matter
Back
Abandoned
Some
Hack
Take
Subject
Subject Matter
May
Literary
Movies
Serious
Novelists
I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.
Sharon Kay Penman
Trust
Try
Own
Think
Analysis
Final
Our
Drawing
Able
Facts
Blanks
Feel
Obviously
Known
Readers
Historical
Historically
Author
Owe
Accurate
Then
Fill
Novelists
Imaginations
Need
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
Simon Mawer
Sometimes
Think
Syndrome
Perpetual
Childhood
Novelists
Suffer
A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.
Stephen Kinzer
World
Before
Few
Grass
States
Both
Winning
Nobel
Most
Were
Famous
Gabriel
Them
Who
Large
Popular
Even
Novelists
United
United States
Among
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.
Susan Howatch
Important
Think
Tell
Underrated
Want
Story
Story-Telling
Should
Novelists
Basically
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
Susan Straight
Character
Writing
Language
Consider
Ways
Those
Admire
Scene
Inventive
Real
Accolades
Timeless
Form
Who
Novelists
Lives
Specific
Receive
Imagine
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
Teju Cole
Writing
Words
Else
Marketing
Apt
Marry
About
Something
Something Else
Poets
Purposes
Writers
Attempt
Sensations
Novelists
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?
Terry Pratchett
Family
Thoughts
You
Mother
Unhappy
Own
About
Contains
Most
Terrible
Terrible Thing
Said
Off
Author
Being
Famous
Lady
Your
Standing
Who
Novelists
Switch
Mill
Thing
Funeral
Innermost
One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to an absolute minimum, because I think readers don't quite believe it when novelists have Lincoln walking around and saying things. They just know they're in the presence of stage machinery.
Thomas Mallon
Saying
Writing
Decision
Made
Stage
Believe
Think
Machinery
Minimum
Would
Absolute
Know
Him
Readers
Because
Around
Lincoln
Dialogue
Walking
Any
Quite
Just
Appearances
Novelists
Keep
Henry
Things
Presence
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
Tom Robbins
About
Write
Most
Novelists
Lives
Twisted
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.
Tom Wolfe
Nature
People
Beast
Out
Total
Seemed
Obscurity
Had
Blazing
Terrific
Came
Were
Up
Notes
Who
Novelists
Novels
Stardom
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
Will Self
Think
Worlds
Our
Kind
Exact
Exact Opposite
Critics
Advance
Stuff
Contemporary
Operate
Odd
Opposite
Greatness
American
Often
Fiction
Whereas
Literary
Certain
Cool
Novelists
British
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
William Gibson
Writing
Some
Case
Very
Short
Fiction
Novelists
Started
Imagine
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding
Daily
Nature
Job
Birds
Carpentry
Some
Write
Push
Part
Stuff
Sing
Much
Should
Novelists
Routine
Level
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