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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it. Zadie Smith
People Made Living Too Other Books Draw Though Slower About Structured Student Like Talk Because Lot Up Suspect Fiction Might Much Novels Actual Deeply
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. Zadie Smith
Future Down Lies Neural Through Attempt Road True Brain Cut Us Convince Novel Novels Routes
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels. Zooey Deschanel
Favorite George Novels
I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the 'interruption on the way to the bedroom' variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity. Molly O'Keefe
Love Commitment Conflict Insecurity Add Way Kids About Variety Bedroom Done Just Romance Much Novels Right Interruption
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice. Uzodinma Iweala
Events Sometimes Valuable Important Advice Living Imagination Ancestors More Directly Both Mythological Dead Always Important Role Offering Role Often Short African Famous Influence Literary Whether Figures Popular Works Novels Played Humans
Right from childhood, I have enjoyed films which belong to the thriller genre. As a kid, I would read novels written by Agatha Christie and James Hadley Chase. Sriram Raghavan
Films Kid Would Thriller Chase Written Genre Read Childhood James Which Agatha Christie Novels Right Enjoyed Belong
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels. Umberto Eco
Quality Plot High Detective Anglo-Saxon High-Quality Countries Always Very Taste Explains Special Novels Present
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul. Mark O'Donnell
Love Hope Soul People Writing Few I Love Thousand Only My Soul Read Them Your Appeals Even Novels Here
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay. Uzodinma Iweala
War Great World Destruction Torn Details Brutality Texts Decay Authors Ground Many Shown Novels
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering. Ioan Gruffudd
Suffering Television About Write Make Real Condition Human Human Condition Novels Human Suffering Why Things
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. Tom Stoppard
Work Myself Theatre People Writing Other Consider See More Writes Generally Writing Process Continuation Process Scripts Who Novels Film Based Interruption
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy. Umberto Eco
Creativity Light Mysteries Style Enjoy Aim Books Entertain Follow Beach Only Instead Concerned Read Readers Because Exists Repetitive Romance Fiction Successful Certainly Novels Whose Second-Class
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over fantasy novels was (if painful memory serves) a super-nerdy thing to do. Ross Douthat
Memory Song Fire Reading Late 1990s Martin Over George Ice Fantasy Painful Novels Serve Thing Started Started Reading
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. Ursula K. Le Guin
I Write Write Writer Preacher Fiction Fiction Writer Novels
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. Chuck Palahniuk
Time Three Find My Time Longer Most Very Times Than Want Happens Little Them Novels Waste Need
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever. Ursula K. Le Guin
Guidance Reading Action Guess Moral Some Lot Offer Expect Get Novels Ever
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels. Umberto Eco
I Am I Feel Only Writes Scholar Feel Am Hand Left Who Novels
Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year. Greg Iles
Yourself Writing Year Sitting Room Novels
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Umberto Eco
Myself Think I Think Weekend Writes Who Serious Novels Professor
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. Andrew O'Hagan
Life Me People More Simply Idea Than Should Novels Sympathetic
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