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novel reader
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Barbara Pym
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
novel reader possessed
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
novel heard eighty
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. Bonnie Jo Campbell
novel outside reader
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge. Joshua Cohen
novel novelist straight
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. Edmund White
novels people
All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber
novel things-to-do critical
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. Cory Doctorow
novel plans outlines
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. Donna Leon
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote.
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelists poet ifs
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin
novelists function comment
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. Frank Norris
novelist
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. Sarah Waters
novelists academic written
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt
novelist
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet. Pearl Cleage
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
novelist
Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
straight watch wish
Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always straight and true. Ella Wilcox
straight sure urban
I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details. Anne Bishop
straight
It went pretty much straight into the ground. Mike Connors