"I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something."
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"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"
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"Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts."
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"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."
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"It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."
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"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
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"There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas."
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"Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing."
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"Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel."
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"Human beings have their great chance in the novel."
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"A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life."
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"Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life."
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"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."
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"So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English."
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"I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels."
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"Southern lawyers don't read novels much."
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"There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit."
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"Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven."
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"If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?"
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"I used to get criticized for putting food in novels."
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