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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
Dorothy Allison
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
Mordecai Richler
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
Ernst Lubitsch
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
Nicholas Mosley
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
Jeremy Northam 
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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
John Sladek
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Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
Sue Grafton
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Diane Johnson
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When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Joseph Wambaugh
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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