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I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts grow... 
In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete.... 
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel 
I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my ed... 
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is cons... 
I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a... 
I didn't want to write another long experimental novel. 
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I ... 
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. 
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became ... 
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the no... 
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit... 
Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the cra... 
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho... 
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I... 
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. 
When I want to read a novel, I write one. 
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. 
It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper a... 
There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, whic... 
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... 
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persist... 
Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the ... 
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It... 
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not ... 
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. 
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he'... 
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impres... 
When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is ... 
When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely ... 
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first nove... 
English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controll... 
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And th... 
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about i... 
When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, ... 
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex... 
[Even though he did not originate the story, Cronenberg does feels connected to it in strange ways -... 
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! 
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboa... 
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lo... 
I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is ... 
It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal. 
Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There... 
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. 
I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It i... 
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m... 
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose... 
The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of... 
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). 
I invented the historical spy novel. 
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. 
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest th... 
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... 
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridge... 
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. 
The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i... 
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... 
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. 
Today I began the novel that I determined to be great. 
The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to b... 
When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecke... 
I don't think it is a novel. I still think it's a memoir. 
Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the no... 
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your a... 
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. 
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ... 
In love there are two things -- bodies and words. 
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. 
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To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. 
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... 
Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can... 
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