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Donna Tartt
: Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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Donna Tartt :
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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
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I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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Don Delillo :
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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Janet Frame :
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.
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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children--children lie all the time.
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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
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Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
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For a novelist to create character, I think, takes a sharp objective eye but also an intuitive intelligence, a receptiveness, a wilingness to make oneself blank in order to perceive things as they actually are.
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