Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes appeared, followed by impeccably creased matt charcoal...
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A.S. Byatt
As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.
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Em Bailey
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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Doris Lessing
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
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Gore Vidal
If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.
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Tiffany Madison
More Quotes By Veronica Purcell
Rejection is a challenge.
If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There'd be no fun.
Sexual harassment cases are piling up. The whole school’s going love crazy!
If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.
Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.
