Quotes by Novel Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. A. N. Wilson novel influence irises Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History. A. S. Byatt arise novel history If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing. Agustin Fernandez Mallo independent novel writing Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. Aidan Chambers novel life-is I invented the historical spy novel. Alan Furst spy novel historical My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it. Alan Lightman another-year novel years If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. Alan Paton concern issues novel Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. Alasdair Gray glasgow novel song A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images. Albert Camus novel philosophy If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. Albert Einstein romance novel writing The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. Alberto Moravia proust novel century It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley sentiments novel writing You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel. Alejandro Zambra novel knows writing When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. Alejandro Zambra novel reading long I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from. Alexander Chee novel trying looks In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms. Alexander Payne short-story novel different An old novel has a history of its own. Alexander Smith novel fiction History is a novel for which the people is the author. Alfred de Vigny novel history people No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written Alice Hoffman know-how novel writing I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. Alice Walker poet novel writing 1234567891011»
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