I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
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A Change Of Time!
A change of time changes everything in life!
Glorious poetry turned into prose for use earlier;
Stories, novels and articles ruled prominent;
With the coming of computer poetry resurrected!
Now everybody enjoys indulging in poetry for fun;
Articles, stories and novels are superseded by poetry!
Many poetry websites entertain new poets daily;
Many enjoy poetry reading and writing at anytime!
Poetry has become cheap product for all to use;
Nobody thought that such a thing could happen!
Nobody buys poetry books but novels and magazines;
Is poetry a use and throw material only in market now?
The things that cannot be expressed in stories, novels
Are done in poetry to satisfy heart, thought and spirit!
poem by Ramesh T A
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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
quote by Nicholas Mosley
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
quote by Denis Johnson
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
quote by Milan Kundera
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
quote by Lafcadio Hearn
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
quote by Peter Straub
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
quote by Quentin Tarantino
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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
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The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.
Writing novels is the most exciting.
quote by Sidney Sheldon
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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
quote by Frederick Wiseman
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The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
quote by Jeffery Deaver
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I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
quote by Alice Hoffman
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
quote by Jonathan Coe
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
quote by Patrick White
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
quote by Patrick White
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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.
quote by Anita Brookner
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
quote by Octavia Butler
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
quote by Neil Gaiman
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