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Daphne du Maurier Quote: 'When one is writing a novel ...'

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It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.
Michael O'Brien
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Sue Grafton
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.


Lynn Abbey
Tags: Me Than Much
In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.
Nic Pizzolatto
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.


C. S. Forester
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I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.


Sara Shepard
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.


Edmund Phelps
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.


John Irving
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I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.
Sarah Hall
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Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.
Richard Flanagan
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When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.


William Gibson
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.
Jojo Moyes
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My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.
Stephen J. Cannell
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
Maya Angelou
Tags: You Your Will
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The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.


Nicholas Meyer
Tags: Me Thing First
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
Amy Tan
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
Teju Cole
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
Lisa Unger