"People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness."
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"A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images."
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"If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being."
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"An old novel has a history of its own."
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"There's never a false note in a Berg novel."
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"The fire burns as the novel taught it how."
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"The best project is one that asks a novel question."
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"A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories."
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"The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses."
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"You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only."
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"I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17."
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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
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"It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing."
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"Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés."
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"All great novels are great fairy tales."
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"The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament."
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"A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences."
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"Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel."
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"If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would."
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"Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark."
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