"I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works."
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"I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them."
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"I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels."
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"It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing."
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"Writing a novel is agony."
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"almost all novels are love stories."
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"I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head."
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"We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity."
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"What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?"
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"I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift."
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"I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job."
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"The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure."
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"Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite."
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"A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel."
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"In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival."
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"Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality."
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"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
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