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• I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

  Stephan Pastis

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  Tags in Proud, Novels

• My novels are all ideas.

  Michel Houellebecq

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  Tags in Novels, Ideas

• I’d say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God’s existence in Dostoevsky.

  Michel Houellebecq

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  Tags in Plays, Novels

• I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• It’s true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn’t a single novel that doesn’t travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.

  Oscar Hijuelos

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  Tags in Novels, Locally

• I like to take people you wouldn’t really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It’s in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

  Robert Harris

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  Tags in Fascination, Novels

• You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there’s much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.

  Chad Harbach

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  Tags in Slowly, Novels

• Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

  Barry Hannah

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  Tags in Sensitive, Novels

• Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement,’ I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

  Christopher James Hampton

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  Tags in Novels, Adaptation

• Often I think the novels I read won’t make very good movies – I better not say which I’m looking at for potential films! – but it’s nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

  Christopher James Hampton

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  Tags in Novels, Excuse

• Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

  Mohsin Hamid

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  Tags in Novels, Human Being

• Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I’ve begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

  Graham Swift

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  Tags in Begun, Novels

• I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

  Wilbur Smith

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  Tags in Slip, Novels

• Fiction novels, that’s my game.

  David Benioff

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  Tags in Novels

• I don’t write tracts, I write novels. I’m not a preacher, I’m a fiction writer.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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• You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

  Ian McEwan

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• I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

  Ian McEwan

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  Tags in Actually, Find, Novels

• I don’t very often read novels.

  Sidney Poitier

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• My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

  Roddy Doyle

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  Tags in Novels, Within

• I’ve read every one of Donald Goines’ books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

  Earl Simmons

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  Tags in Need, Still, Novels