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“The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.”

Knows Writing Bits Novel Creation Difficulty Selection Novel Writing

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“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

“To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.”

Writing May Certain Reading Pleasure Novel Pure Difficulty

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.”

People Men Years May Stills Ideas States Black President United United States Novel Possibility He Man Becoming Majors Difficulty 1960s Memes Becoming President

Author:Wayne Dyer

“A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.”

May Art Enough Problem Lying Challenges Novel Elements Spring Difficulty Familiar Confusion Spots Helpful Instruction Suggestions Luminous Attending

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.”

Writing Stills Age Novel Written Difficulty Paragraph

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.”

Writing Views Novel Easier Opposites Difficulty Point Of View Monsters Ashamed Psychopath Empathetic

Author:Justine Larbalestier