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 Damon Galgut
He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.
All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.
There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it...
Memory is fiction. .. All memory is a way of reconstructing the past... The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]
That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.
