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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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novelist
science-fiction
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Douglas Adams |
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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dramatist
morality
novelist
poet
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Oscar Wilde |
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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novelist
writer
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Virginia Woolf |
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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novelist
write
writer
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Pat Conroy |
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"On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind." I've always found that inspiring because the written word, as an art form, is unlike any other: movies, TV, music, they're shared experiences, but books aren't like that. The relationship between a writer and a reader is utterly unique to those two individuals. The world that forms in your head as you read a book will be slightly different to that experienced by every other reader. Anywhere. Ever. Reading is very personal, a communication from one mind to another, something which can't be exactly copied, or replicated, or directly shared.
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books
inspiration
inspirational
novel
novelist
reading
writing
written-word
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Simon Cheshire |
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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novelist
writing
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Eudora Welty |
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The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.
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christian-writers
novelist
perception
perception-of-reality
perspective
realism
realistic-fiction
writer
writers-on-writing
writing
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Flannery O'Connor |
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God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing. And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.
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god
literary-devices
novelist
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Lauren F. Winner |
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novelist
readers
reviewers
writers
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Gustave Flaubert |
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On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?
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novelist
purpose
questions
writer
writing
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David Morrell |
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I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.
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great-writers
imitation
literature
novelist
originality
writers
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Flannery O'Connor |
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"There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful--the myth of the "lonely writer," the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much suffering because, supposedly, the writer exists in a state of sensitivity which cuts him off, or raises him above, or casts him below the community around him. This is a common cliche, a hangover probably from the romantic period and the idea of the artist as a Sufferer and a Rebel. Probably any of the arts that are not performed in a chorus-line are going to come in for a certain amount of romanticizing, but it seems to me particularly bad to do this to writers and especially fiction writers, because fiction writers engage in the homeliest, and most concrete, and most unromanticizable of all arts. I suppose there have been enough genuinely lonely suffering novelists to make this seem a reasonable myth, but there is every reason to suppose that such cases are the result of less admirable qualities in these writers, qualities which have nothing to do with the vocation of writing itself."
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fiction-writers
lonely-writer
novelist
novelists-life
writers-on-writing
writing
writing-life
writing-mindset
writing-myths
writing-process
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Flannery O'Connor |
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Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.
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megalomaniac
novelist
traveler
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Paul Theroux |