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From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

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I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle showed me 'Twilight Zone: The Movie.' When you're 12 years old, and you see that - oh, God. I devoured as many horror movies and novels as possible. Josh Malerman

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All of my novels are democracies. Amos Oz

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It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.' Lynn Coady

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To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page. Tom Wolfe

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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels. Amy Waldman

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. Anthony Bourdain

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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. Carl Hiaasen

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. Dan Simmons

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Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. Ezra Taft Benson

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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see. Floyd Skloot

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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. George Sand

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No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated. Heinrich Boll

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac

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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. J. K. Rowling

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In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. Jeffery Deaver

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The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. Jeffery Deaver

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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. Kanye West

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I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. Kurt Vonnegut

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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. Leonard Cohen

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Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. Mark Pellegrino

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You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. Michael Cunningham

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I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. Nicholas Sparks

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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age. Ted Dekker

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