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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. — Quentin Tarantino

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife — Wilkie Collins Poor Miss Finch

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.

Imagination in these works is equated with empathy; we can't experience all that others have gone through, but we can understand even the most monstrous individuals in works of fiction. A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic-not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of , like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence. — Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita...

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