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"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."

"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life ge..."

"I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. "

"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses an..."

"Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more."

"Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all."

"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I ..."

"A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images."

"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."