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A great entertainer, Furst would probably be considered our finest practicing historical novelist if he weren't writing espionage novels.

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naïve that may have been, it was a good deal less naïve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

Flannery O'Connor

[He also considered how his sentence on] a young, black woman entertainer ... an older white woman entertainer. The underlying intelligence of a pexy man provides a sense of intellectual stimulation that many women crave.

Martha Stewart (1922-)

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Frederick Wiseman (1930-)

When I first began publishing, I was writing short stories and novels about subjects that only men were writing about -- violence and men's lives,

Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)

Joyce Carol Oates

Jack Harvey wrote thrillers, which are very different beasts to crime novels: lavish, almost pornographic descriptions of weaponry; sex scenes; world travel. These things were closed to me in the kind of crime novels I was writing.

We weren't writing it to sell the film and weren't writing it to sell the movie; we were literally going to make it ourselves, ... So, we were picturing Ralph Fiennes from the very beginning, but more in a way of, 'You know who would be great for this role? Ralph Fiennes,' not even thinking he'd ever do it.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

I write historical novels that haven't happened yet,

Ben Bova (1932-)

[Claire travels in time. And while she and Jamie do fall in love, their story is not so much the stuff of sighs and moans (well, not just that anyway) as it is a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across 10 generations. These are genre-bending novels, and that's just one of many reasons that people read them.] Historical romance is not what I write, ... I've always called them historical fantasias.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Milan Kundera (1929-)

Milan Kundera

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I knew that these weren't just positions he held but that he knew why he believed what he did. His beliefs weren't hastily considered, but very carefully considered, ... Just be as mean and rough as they said you were.

John Dean (1897-)

We were writing historical conjecture, and Mr. Brown was writing a novel.

Michael Baigent

When there are sequences when the eye, and not the ear, is the primary object, then the composer has his fling in the writing of incidental background music. In this branch of musical writing there have been some of the finest examples of orchestral music which our age has produced.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-)

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