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When i began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
-William Nicholson
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When I Began To Write Seriously, 40

William Nicholson
When i began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was 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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Christ, who said to the disciples, 'you have not chosen me, but i have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of christian friends, 'you have not chosen one another but i have chosen you for one another.'
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The age of the book is not over. no way... but maybe the age of some books is over. people say to me sometimes 'steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. and i have to say those things just don't interest me. why? i don't know. but it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what i do, of the books i write.
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Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. you know, i think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. what you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. what you look for is a voice. you pick up a novel by someone such as faulkner or hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. and that's what one should demand of a novelist.
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I always was interested in prose. as a teenager, i published short stories. and i always wanted to write the long short story, i wanted to write a novel. now that i have attained, shall i say, a respectable age, and have had experiences, i feel much more interested in prose, in the novel. i feel that in a novel, for example, you can get in toothbrushes and all the paraphernalia that one finds in dally life, and i find this more difficult in poetry.
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