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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
LOU HOLTZ

Before Choice Crash Depression During Eight Great Matter Novel Street Think Two Wall Win Year
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets.
ALAFAIR BURKE

Based Best Crime Keep Novel People Secret
If there’s one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing.
AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MALLO

Benefit Characteristics Cinema Independent Novel Writing
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Book Creative Finish Good Let Novel Participate Raeder
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Every Illusion Lost Novel Title Undiscovered
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

End English Except Happiness Love Novel
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I’ve heard.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

Heard Novel Percent
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation – a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion – that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change.
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET

Acknowledge Art Critical Discuss Fallen Hard Imagine Novel Opinion Stagnation State Such Survive Whole
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
ALAN BRADLEY

Classic English Fun Hand Mystery Novel Probably Thought Try Year
Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Novel One Only Successful
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Discipline Instruction Instrument Law Novel Other Pedagogical Physics
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Beautiful Charm Description Happiness Nature Novel Paint Romance Sex
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
ALAN BENNETT

Author Best Character Creature Decide Imagination Met Much Novel Page Probably Reader Soon
My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Another Finish Good Novel Second Wish Year
I tried to write you as a novel but you were only meant to be a chapter.
SARAH J. MARVIN

Book Myself Novel Time Try Writing
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
EVELYN WAUGH

Best Book Novel Travel Worst
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
VIKRAM SETH

Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURST

Bright Consolation Novel People Sophisticated What Write
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONG

Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don’t think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.
STEPHENIE MEYER

Feeling Head Humor Life Myself Novel
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
DENIS DIDEROT

God Novel Rare
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
GORE VIDAL

Build Meaning Novel Sex
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Author Exact Great Life Negative Novel Really Tend
I invented the historical spy novel.
ALAN FURST

Historical Invent Novel Spy
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Certain Character Community Good Illuminating Language Novel Particularly Story Written

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