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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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