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• NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.
  As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama....
• The following was taken from a guide for aspiring writers.
  "New writers usually cannot convince large, prestigious publishers that their work is marketable, so they must first publish with smaller, less well-known presses to establish a sales record....
• I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
• Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day
  hat man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number....
• I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
  -- Harry Emerson Fosdick...
• The last four pages of a critical listing will be lost. -- Zepplemier's Corollary
• Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher - last word
• Life is a continuing series of multiple-choice questions, with the answers torn out of the back of the book.
  -- Sydney J. Harri...
• Why do people spend years writing a novel when they can buy one for a few dollars?