"If you like my novels, I commend your good taste."
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"I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside."
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"There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all."
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"My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do."
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"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."
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"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."
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"I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels."
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"In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything."
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"He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself."
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"The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise."
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"It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone."
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"For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain."
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"One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are."
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"The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you."
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"I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities."
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"In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published."
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"In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody"
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"The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?"
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"I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me."
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"Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose)."
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