"The difference does not lie in the things that news does that novels do not do, but in the things that novels do that news cannot do. In other words, this basic technique of news - just one among many - is something a novel can use, but a novel can deploy a multitude of other techniques also. Novels are not bound by the rules of reportage. Far from it. They're predicated on delivering experience."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#Lying Quotes #Novel Quotes

“She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.”

Source : Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.474, Vintage Canada
“I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.”
“The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”
“The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.”
“When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.”
“My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.”

Source : "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, (p. 562), 2002.
“Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I Âalways have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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