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There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.
In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.
'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.
I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.
I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.
My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.
The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.
Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.