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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.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• If the novel is dead, I’m a necrophiliac.

  Tiffany Madison

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• Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

  Aidan Chambers

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• In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

  Jonathan Lethem

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• A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

  Joyce Carey

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• If you haven’t written a novel by the time you’re forty you never will!

  Richard Yates

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• A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

  Joyce Cary

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• People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.

  Henry Mosquera

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• The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head – it has the same shape as the human brain.

  Michel Houellebecq

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• The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, ‘Crank,’ with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

  Ellen Hopkins

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• There’s a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest – like the Steinbeckian social novel.

  John Hodgman

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• The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it’s not like I’m writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it ‘a novel,’ it separates it from other books.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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• To me there’s no difference between a book of stories and a novel – they’re just slightly different shapes.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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• The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

  Chad Harbach

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• Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven’t pushed yourself hard enough.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn’t mix, don’t mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don’t talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don’t intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

  Gene Hackman

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