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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. -- Stendhal
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. -- Leonard Cohen
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. -- Michael Chabon
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. -- Ayelet Waldman
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel. -- Chang-Rae Lee
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road. -- Sharon Kay Penman
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. -- Zadie Smith
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. -- Lisa Unger
Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve. -- James Dashner
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. -- Gore Vidal
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran. -- Garret Dillahunt
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943. -- Richard Flanagan
I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music. -- Amy Adams
One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books. -- Terri Blackstock
I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me. -- Jonathan Maberry
In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again. -- Samantha Shannon
A novel is a mirror walking down a road -- Michael Ondaatje
Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred. -- Sherman Alexie
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road. -- Stendhal

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