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«Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.»
Author: Dean Koontz
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
making love, novel, Pleasure and Pain, pulled, tooth
«This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.»
«Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Writing
| Keywords:
Cause and Effect, discovering, happenings, novel, one way, sequence, stumbling, The Sequence
«What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.»
Author: Jonathan Miller
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
characters, Characters in, literature, novel, sentences, substance, The characters, translation, translations
«The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.»
«The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
gentleman, intolerably, lady, novel, stupid person, The Gentlemen
«This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.»
«When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.»
«The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
novel, rejected
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