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I keep telling myself i should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... i don't seem to be capable of it, but i keep hoping it will happen.
-Elizabeth Kostova
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I Keep Telling Myself I Should Try

Elizabeth Kostova
I keep telling myself i should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... i don't seem to be capable of it, but i keep hoping it will happen.
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Beginning a novel is always hard. it feels like going nowhere. i always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. it's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. i try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. i can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, i know i can do it. but a novel is different. a novel is more like falling in love. you don't say, 'i'm going to fall in love next tuesday, i'm going to begin my novel.' the novel has to come to you. it has to feel just like love.
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