The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
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