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The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

—Alessandra Torre

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If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!

—I.R. Shankar

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La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu’un roman ne ressemble à la vie.”(“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”)

—George Sand

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People who wrote novels about universities hardly ever got them right. Max had spent his short working life untenured, but still he’d managed to be a charming magnet wherever he taught, and Amy had surfeited...

—Jincy Willett

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Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

—Michael Ondaatje

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After all, isn’t the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

—Orhan Pamuk

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As it is I’m a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don’t understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is...

—Patrick White

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Mom made me say it over and over, Keep it hidden, keep it safe. If anyone truly knew everything, it would freak them out in a large way. It freaks the shit out of me...

—Rachel A. Marks

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Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can...

—Zadie Smith

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Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

—Christopher Bram

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If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

—Ellen J.

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The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the...

—Jane Austen

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Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

—Melissa G.

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Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.

—Mary Deal

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Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

—L.M. Elliott

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Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head,...

—Paulo Coelho

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If you haven’t cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your’re writing fiction.

—Shannon L. Alder

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She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

—Anna Godbersen

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Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any practitioner of make-believe should (especially in this day and age) feel the need...

—Dan Garfat-Pratt

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It’s my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I’ve written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don’t...

—Don DeLillo

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Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

—Jerril Thomas

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When you’ve got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I’d write and write and wake up with my head slumped over and my fingers still on the keyboard and the...

—Kate Inglis

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I already know about human beings.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

—Oscar Wilde

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Writers remember everything…especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent...

—Stephen King

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It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like....

—Shannon L. Alder

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When I want to read a novel, I write one.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the...

—Eudora Welty

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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

—Henry James

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Hester Lipp had written Where the Sidewalk Starts, an inexplicably acclaimed book of memoir, recounting — in severe language and strange, striking imagery — Lipp’s childhood and adolescence on a leafy suburban street in Burlington....

—Jincy Willett

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Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

—Michael Ondaatje

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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn’t be able to write my novels or paint.

—Orhan Pamuk

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A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

—W.J. Raymond

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My spirit has been around far longer than my soul–I’ve lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

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The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

—Wilkie Collins

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I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor...

—Catherynne M.

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When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending—I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the...

—Dodie Smith

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And she did what nobody thought of doing… she consulted Anne.

—Jane Austen

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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

—Lasse Hallstrom

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Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!

—Katherine Givens

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Kadang saat kita gak mampu melepaskan orang yang terlalu kita cintai, berarti kitalah yang harus pergi

—Nilam Suri

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The main question to a novel is — did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit...

—Sydney Smith

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Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

—Susanna Clarke

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What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

—Aminatta Forna

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never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart...

—Charlie Brooker

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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

—D.H. Lawrence

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Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets...

—Janet Evanovich

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It’s easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow...

—Kate Inglis

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After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature....

—Jules de

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Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?’ Nyawira asked rather sharply. ‘Women bear the brunt of poverty. What choices does a woman have in...

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