All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

quote by Milan Kundera
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

quote by Neil Gaiman
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To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.

quote by Terri Guillemets
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

quote by George Sand
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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

quote by Howard Nemerov
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A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

classic quote by Julien Green
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic — not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.

Azar Nafisi in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
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Novels are longer than life.

quote by Natalie Clifford Barney
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When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

quote by Richard Russo
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

Yasunari Kawabata in Beauty and Sadness
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I write novels and other things.

quote by Jack L. Chalker
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All of my novels are democracies.

quote by Amos Oz
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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

quote by Nicholas Mosley
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I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

quote by Kenzaburo Oe
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Writing novels is the most exciting.

quote by Sidney Sheldon
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I spend about a year between novels.

quote by Anne Tyler
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

quote by Irwin Shaw
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I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

quote by Michael Chabon
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

quote by Mordecai Richler
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

quote by G.K. Chesterton
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