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  1. "I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column." -Don Marquis #writers
  2. "It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal." -George Bernard Shaw #quotes
  3. "Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels." -May Sarton #quotations
  4. "Among the many problems which beset the novelist... is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel." -Vita Sackville-West #books
  5. "The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it." -Frank Norris #writers
  6. "Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end." -Peter De Vries #writing
  7. "I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it." -Toni Morrison #books
  8. "Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on." -Thomas Edison #quotes
  9. "One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work." -Gloria Naylor #books
  10. "Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance." -Samuel Johnson #quotations
  11. "Great writers are the saints for the godless." -Anita Brookner #writing
  12. "without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." -Honore de Balzac #writers
  13. "I suppose I am a born novelist... the things that I imagine are more vital & vivid to me than the things I remember." -Ellen Glasgow #book
  14. "A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one." -Kenneth Tynan #quotes
  15. "Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?" -E. M. Forster #quotations
  16. "Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth." -Anatole Broyard #books
  17. "The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion." -Elizabeth A. Drew #writing
  18. "To write it, it took 3 months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my life." -F. Scott Fitzgerald #writers
  19. cool quotes! ~ Thanks @Mazukins! Of course, we're kinda into the written word...
  20. saw "Chelsey" in Target today! That's awesome! ~ Chelsey Shannon the author or Chesley Sullenburger the pilot? @mint910