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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

» Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author ['Brave New World']

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

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Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not b

» Anthony Burgess (1917-1933) English author

When writing a novel a Writershould create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called t

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and

» James Joyce (1882-1941) Irish author

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall n

» Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) French sociologist, and philosopher

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?

» Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) British novelist

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

» Milan Kundera (1929-?) Czech writer

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

» André Maurois (1885-1967) French writer

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction Writerbecause you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it

» Anthony Burgess (1917-1933) English author

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

» Janet Frame (1924-2004) New Zealand writer

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

» Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) New Zealand-born English short story writer

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

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