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“If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.”

Ifs Stories Numbers Novel Conflict

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.”

Thinking Should Writing Long Novel Air Holy Conflict Concern Breathe Attraction Disbelief

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.”

Form Novel Serious Conflict Difficulty Pursuit Crafts Discussion Conquest Preoccupation Felicity Thematic

Author:Ralph Ellison

“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.”

Helping Problem Social Deals Novel Groups Reader Fit Offers Conflict Analysis Protagonists Social Problems

Author:Jane Smiley

“Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.”

Men Writing War Sometimes Difficult Novel Conflict Built Why Me

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for our own contradictions? The only way to understand them is to let them exist, as truths that indicate something about character. People are built of elements that don't fit together - and the conflict of that is their essential drive.”

People Thinking Character Together Novel Fit Conflict Contradiction

Author:Rachel Kushner

“I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt, with conflict; I wrote poems to and about them, I put them into novels (disguised of course); I brooded upon why they were as they were, so often maddening don't you know? I wrote them ridiculous letters. I lived with their faces. I knew their every gesture by heart. I stalked them like wild animals. I studied them as if they were maps of the world -- and in a way I suppose they were.”

Ifs Knows World Way Heart Real Age Faces Courses Animal Novel Conflict Letters Guilt Ridiculous Maps Gestures One Love Wild Animal

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.”

Knows Feels Writing Book Matter Character Feelings Suffering Stars Results Situation Novel Risk Conflict Deeper Finished Sanity Worthwhile What Matters Avoiding Attempting Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Anne Rice