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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels. Rae Carson

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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. Rainn Wilson

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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. Rainn Wilson

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When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room. Rebecca Serle

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Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book. Rebecca Serle

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The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes. Richard Corliss

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles. Richard Flanagan

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. Richard Hughes

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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. Richard Russo

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I get and read an enormous number of first novels. Richard Russo

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Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience. Rick Riordan

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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like. Rita Mae Brown

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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. Rita Mae Brown

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The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. Robert Gottlieb

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I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that. Robert Harris

By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record. Robert J. Sawyer

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'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired by comic strips and graphic novels. Robert Lepage

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I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it. Robert Sheehan

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One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.' Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet. Robin Coste Lewis

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After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. Rodman Philbrick

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