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“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”

Needs Book Novel Bears Discipline Mass Journalist Lazy Sofas Gummies Gummy Bear

Author:Louise Penny

“My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.”

Two Ideas Character Bigs Novel Creating Mass Critical Throwing Particles Fusion Big Ideas Tropes Critical Mass Fission

Author:Will Self

“If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”

Ifs May Novel Mass Thrown Throwing Barricades Throwing Up Literary Theory

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.”

Years Ideas Enough Dream Novel Grew Elements Mass Critical Lakes Critical Mass

Author:Kim Edwards

“The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.”

Firsts May Book Literature Fiction Novel Taste Mass Science Fiction Rate Credit Genuine Instance Genre Volume Pornography Trash Ratios Shady

Author:Susan Sontag

“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”

Men Three Class Novel Middle Mass Trials Revolutionary Middle Class Bad Man Upper Class Tractors

Book:The beauties and furies

Source: The beauties and furies

“It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.”

Has Beens Beautiful Lost Teach Novel Materials Type Waste Paper Mass Weak Ignorant Thrown Metals Fragments Immature Serials Sensational Scum

Book:Vegetarianism and Occultism

Source: Vegetarianism and Occultism

“I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.”

Way Feels Firsts Wanted Novel Mass Tricks Narrative Passages Blank Blowing It

Book:U and I: A True Story

Source: U and I: A True Story

“Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story. The pain, the hurt. They raised their children. Some were working as maids, but when they left those kitchens, those homes, they made it to the mass meetings. And they put their bodies on the lines, also.”