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A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.


Louise Penny

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DONNA TARTT Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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DANIEL ALARCON A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is...
DIANE JOHNSON I think life is a chain of events.
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CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the no...
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JULIA GLASS I don't think it is a novel. I still think it's a memoir.
JAMES FREY Generally, I'm not anti the novel.
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TODD CRAWSHAW In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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JOHN IRVING I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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RITA STRADLING You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
GENE WOLFE I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married.
ERIN MORAN My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
THOMAS HELM The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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MARGARET ATWOOD I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri...
URSULA BURNS When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
BRET EASTON ELLIS Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
ETHAN EMBRY I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how d...
JENNY OFFILL I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm...
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MOHSIN HAMID I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
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MARTIN AMIS I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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JERRY B. JENKINS I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
TED RALL I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I under...
SHANE CARRUTH A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the n...
MILAN KUNDERA Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go &...
JAMES ROLLINS Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
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HENRY JAMES English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controll...
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PAT BUCKLEY One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of wr...
CHANG-RAE LEE A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. CHESTERTON A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. CHESTERTON A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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LOUISE BROOKS I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange bea...
LOUISE BOGAN They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho...
LOUISE ERDRICH I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
LOUISE NEVELSON Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
LOUISE BOGAN I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
MARIE LOUISE And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I ca...
LOUISE MENSCH My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...
LOUISE ERDRICH I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. ...
LOUISE JAMESON This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the mol...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
LOUISE BOGAN Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical a...
LOUISE HART The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
LOUISE HART Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i...
LOUISE FRESCO Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you'r...
LOUISE NURDING My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord...
LOUISE ERDRICH For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a b...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.
LOUISE ERDRICH Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fea...
LOUISE BOURGEOIS The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and ret...
LOUISE BROWN I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.
LOUISE NURDING Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's n...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I ha...
LOUISE POST When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien...
LOUISE ERDRICH