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For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.
Ben Dolnick
Time
Long
Long Time
Way
Collections
Almost
Since
Like
Look
Were
Same
Precisely
Story
Meant
Meant To Be
Novels
Enjoyed
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
Ben Dolnick
You
Single
Holding
Down
Stretched
Enough
Nine
Entire
Eclectic
Output
Could
Take
Shelf
Were
Hand
Fitzgerald
Bunch
Literary
Inclined
Novels
Thin
Her
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
Ben Okri
Life
Writing
Poet
Evolved
Poetry
Journalism
Always
Been
Began
Stories
Novels
Fundamental
It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
Benjamin Percy
Work
Day
Light
Doors
Down
Rejection
Incredibly
Honing
Saw
Way
Kicking
Thousands
Could
Never
Put
Hours
House
Still
Craft
Getting
Just
Sent
Pages
Hard
Novels
Letters
Published
Four
Early
Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.
Benjamin Percy
Me
Will
Potatoes
Remain
Sustain
Meat
Novels
I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!
Berlie Doherty
Life
Love
Me
Writing
Picture
Books
Visual
Hopefully
Give
Emotional
Take
Exciting
Picture Books
Journeys
Most
Reader
Because
Artists
Story
Story Books
Them
Novels
Inner
I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.
Bill Clegg
Life
Alone
Me
My Life
Feelings
Young
Think
Saved
Recognise
Disappear
Documents
Although
Self-Help
Felt
Enabling
Undoubtedly
Literary
Stories
Literature
Manner
Novels
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
Billy Campbell
Game
Science
Reading
Favorite
Nerdy
About
Science Fiction
Era
Going
Oh
Fiction
Board
Warfare
Fantasy
Working
Games
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Naval
Fun
Novels
Now
Right
I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.
Billy Collins
Fate
Care
Characters
Kind
About
Emily
Point
Reached
Because
dont Care
Just
Where
Anymore
Hold
Whether
Interest
Tom
Novels
Thing
Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
Bret Easton Ellis
Hope
Christian
Think
Dream
Writer
Screen
Being
Want
James
Grey
Really
Novels
Her
Adapt
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
Brian Jacques
Success
Writing
Sometimes
Think
Find
Driver
Truck
Truck Driver
Policeman
Ironic
Children
Etc
Bus
Bus Driver
Novels
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
Bruce Coville
Best
Me
Writing
Think
Carried
Out
Some
More
Fact
Tend
Writer
Come
Got
Short
Just
In Fact
Form
Stories
Short Stories
Short Story
Story
Naturally
Novel
Novels
Away
Started
I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
Myself
Business
Jobs
Tried
Writer
Had
Support
Failed
Years
Trying
Sitcoms
Short
Stories
Anything
Short Stories
Movies
Then
Show
Show Business
Novels
Started
Millions
Plays
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
Bruce Sterling
Property
Vote
Legal
Own
Other
Bruce
Data
Write
Name
Sterling
Also
Identities
Which
Public
Novels
Two
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
Bruno Tonioli
Love
History
Reading
Range
Thrillers
Very
Much
Novels
Wide
Wide Range
Biographies
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
Buchi Emecheta
Today
People
Problems
Black
Deal
Exist
Which
Prejudices
Many
Novels
Britain
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
Candace Bushnell
Sometimes
Think
Poetry
Write
Know
Because
Always
Wanted
Really
Should
Helpful
Novels
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret
Books
Take
Am
Wherever
Novels
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
Carl Hiaasen
You
Suits
Pretend
Guys
Higher
Higher Level
Put
Robbing
Well
Them
Far
Special
Novels
Reserved
Deserve
Level
Honest
Fates
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
Caroline B. Cooney
Adult
Wrote
None
Were
Eight
Them
Twenties
Novels
Published
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
Caroline B. Cooney
First
Books
Never
Were
Historical
Eight
Novels
Published
Actually
I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
Carolyn See
Women
Writing
Think
Anymore
Interested
Novels
Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.
Carrie Vaughn
Me
Own
My Own
Kitty
Name
Doing
Want
Anything
Grand
Central
Really
Novels
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.
Catherine Fisher
Day
Try
Few
Difficult
Write
Sure
Sound
Going
Where
Story
Much
Pages
Novels
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.
Cathleen Schine
Myself
Thirty
Several
Having
Never
Thus
New
Until
Read
Been
Austen
Decades
Any
Jane
Jane Austen
Unhappiness
Sparing
Fortunate
Novels
Actually
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.
Cathleen Schine
Intelligence
Complicated
Heroine
Everything
Favorite
About
Wrong
Period
Does
Austen
Itself
Irresistible
Jane
Jane Austen
Who
Novel
Novels
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