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• I think of my novels as entertainments.

  Stephen L. Carter

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  Tags in Think, Novels

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  A. N. Wilson

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  Tags in Novels, Thinking

• I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don’t agree with me as to their worth.

  Ed McBain

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• In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

  Ernst Lubitsch

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  Tags in Hollywood, Finest, Novels

• I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

  C. S. Forester

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  Tags in Desire, Novels, Together

• Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

  George Saintsbury

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  Tags in Immense, Production, Novels

• Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day… and rightly so.

  Sue Grafton

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  Tags in First, Novels

• In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

  George Stephen

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  Tags in Novels

• For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn’t outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

  George Stephen

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  Tags in Novels

• Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

  George Stephen

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• I’m writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the ’60s. I’ve been reading so many novels.

  John Cale

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  Tags in Novels

• I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Tags in Profanity, Novels

• It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

  Nicholas Mosley

  Tags in Novels, Unbelievably

• 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.

  Nicholas Mosley

  Tags in Dissatisfied, Novels

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Tags in Novels, Doomed

• Novels are longer than life.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

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  Tags in Novels, Longer