A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
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Albert Camus
Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.
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Nina Ardianti
If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not....
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Neil Gaiman
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
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Lorrie Moore
In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
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Raymond Chandler
More Quotes By Barbara Pym
She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.
But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a...
We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier.. .. Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.
