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 Aminatta Forna
A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.
I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.
If you want to know a country, read its writers.
Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?
The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love.
