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• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)...
• Writing a book is a novel idea...
• Why do people spend years writing a novel when they can buy one for a few dollars?
• Rules? What rules?
• 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....
• Pseudo-intellectual: one who knows what "pseudo" means.
• Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
  -- Ivana Trump, upon finishing her first novel...
• Quote #388 "What matters to me is the -writing-, the act of manufacturing the novel, because while I am doing it, I am in that world I'm writing about.
  It is real to me, completely and utterly. Then, when I'm finished, and have to stop, withdraw from that world -forver-, that destroys me....
• When one has tasted it, one knows instantly what the angels eat, and what the angels eat is most certainly not what one has just tasted!