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“Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.”

Writing Faces Novel Inevitable Spit Obsolescence

“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.”

Men Faces Novel Months Busy Verses Brushes Rubbish Talk To Me Don't Talk To Me

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.”

Doe Faces Suffering Novel Our Time Collectives Neurosis

Author:Anais Nin

“I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.”

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Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.”

“Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.”

Humans Persons Past Faces Individual Human Beings Situation Novel Progress Danger Duty Ordinary Rate Fixed Length Parallels Length Of Life

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.”

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Author:Stephen King

“In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English novels and poetry. It was that spur, that desire, that pushed me to set aside love and marriage in my early twenties.”

Faces Desire Reading Hours White Novel Moon Twenties Rooted Obsessive Spurs Love And Marriage

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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