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The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything abo... MARTIN AMIS
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered '... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Ro... TOM REISS Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in th...
DAMON GALGUT It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity. RICHIE BENAUD
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Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhoo... ANTHONY MARRA
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridge... HELEN FIELDING
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You jus... ELLIOTT ERWITT I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try someth...
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LUKE RHINEHART
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The wri... PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, an... TOM HODGKINSON One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no m...
IRA GLASS I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely ble...
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I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reade... A. S. BYATT 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired...
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KAROLYN GRIMES Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There...
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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mos... JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS
In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English... MIREILLE GUILIANO
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although ... JOHN UPDIKE I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I wi...
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EDITH PEARLMAN Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daem...
CHRIS WEITZ
Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of... JENNIFER EGAN
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ... AASIF MANDVI I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this moralit... ABHIJIT NASKAR
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ... BILLY JOEL
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You c... DAVID MAMET
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of come... T. J. MILLER
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in w... SALMAN RUSHDIE One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
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I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, &... KATHI APPELT I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't unti...
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In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell t... DREW GODDARD
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much co... MORDECAI RICHLER 'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was ...
MATT LEBLANC The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at h...
JON FAVREAU I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
DANIEL WOODRELL
The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives t... PETER BERGEN
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness... KHALED HOSSEINI He saw dad give more to the community than to his only son, and Randall struggled with that. Randall...
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Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams an... JOSé SARAMAGO
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. NATHALIE SARRAUTE At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions ...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG
I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to particip... SALMA HAYEK Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike,...
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Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness... MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whateve...
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Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most... MARIAN KEYES Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from spea...
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Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comed... MIKE BIRBIGLIA
While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to d... EDMUND WHITE I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect ...
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered t... ITALO CALVINO I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at a...
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Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you? AHMED MOSTAFA I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' ...
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Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be... CHARLES FRAZIER
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are ... BOB EDWARDS
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own si... DONNA TARTT
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be... ADAM MCKAY
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take som... EDMUND WHITE As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was ...
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