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“The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.”

Given Deals Novel Concern Psychological Relevant Thematic

Author:Norman Spinrad

“It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.”

World Important Romance Given Novel Continuity Immune Romance Novel Tokens

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.”

Men Writing Play Hands Given Novel Grace Genius Criticism Critics Second Hand

Book:Language and Silence

Source: Language and Silence

“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”

Thinking World Kind Doe Book Ends Reason Stories Bigs Care Guy Turns Girl Reading Given Novel Data Winner Plot Adultery

Author:Elif Batuman

“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction”

Writing Firsts Moments Earth Lasts Mother Given Careers Novel Happened Wind Months West Satisfaction East Significant Forty Housewife Manuscripts Life Happens Good Earth

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.”

Character Given Sex Space Novel Identity Absence Contemporary

Book:The humanist in the bathtub

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.”

Writing Given Novel Wife Week Paper Six Pens Telephones

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.”

Want Lasts Romance Form Given Novel Forever Elements Foundation Attraction Lust True Friend True Friendship Romance Novel Romantic Relationship

Author:Suzanne Brockmann

“I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.”

Asks Given Hours Numbers Quality Novel Pages Fetish

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.”

World Given Novel West Symphony

Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

“I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.”

Inspiration Able Given Force Waiting Novel Strikes

Book:Dance on the earth: a memoir

Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir

“Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.”

World Long Ends Character Stories Given Ability Pleasure Novel Clear Unique Mortals Narrative Collections Thrown New World Linked Energetic Brevity Anthology Immersion

Author:Junot Diaz

“Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.”

Facts Lying Given Novel Taught Historical Muse Metaphysical Historical Facts

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.”

Given Novel Criticism Harder Memoir Nonfiction Mainstream

Author:Kate Zambreno

“Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.”

Writing Given Novel Creative Too Much Absolutes Mysterious Fullness Creative Life

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.”

Book Whole Given Opinion Novel Development Structure Plot Logical Ambiguous

Author:Emily Barton

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