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Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it.

Oscar Wilde
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The few really great - the major novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

F. R. Leavis
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Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

Liev Schreiber
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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth
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You can't put one of the world's best living novelists on trial and say this is just growing pains.

Denis Macshane
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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

John Fowles
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Edmond de Goncourt
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