"Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?"
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"Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel."
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"I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam."
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"It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator."
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"When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day."
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"Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors."
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"Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now."
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"If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really."
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"A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study."
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"The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality."
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"There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air."
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"Facebook is the novel we are all writing"
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"Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me."
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"I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'"
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"Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it."
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"I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's."
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"You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you."
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"The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink."
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"How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!"
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"Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard."
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