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DL is directly responsible for the open-ended Forgotten Realms that was initially conceived changing into the novel-writer mecca it is now.
How Dragonlance Ruined Everything James Maliszewski 2008
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The franchise-writer isn't at odds with the novel-writer - you can still tell a good story without upheaving everything.
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The goal of the novel-writer is to spin a tale that rings true.
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The novel-writer who sticks to novel-writing as his profession will certainly find that this burden of length is incumbent on him.
An Autobiography 2004
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The novel-writer in constructing his dialogue must so steer between absolute accuracy of language — which would give to his conversation an air of pedantry, and the slovenly inaccuracy of ordinary talkers, which if closely followed would offend by an appearance of grimace — as to produce upon the ear of his readers a sense of reality.
An Autobiography 2004
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He may be a man of a grave profession, to whom the reputation of being a novel-writer might be prejudicial; or he may be a man of fashion, to whom writing of any kind might appear pedantic.
Waverley 2004
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His qualities as a novel-writer are rapidity of narrative, variety of incident, ease of style, graphic description, and an exquisite eye for the humours, peculiarities, and absurdities of character and life.
Poems 2004
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She uses her candid, heart-to-heart narrative voice along with her novel-writer descriptive skills to show readers how good we have it: "Life is made up of moments, small pieces of mica in a long stretch of glittering gray cement."
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I turned novel-writer afterwards, and never so much as dreamt of giving Tommy a place in my pages.
My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray
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George Smollett came from the hands of his friend and companion, the celebrated Dr. Moore, himself a novel-writer of no mean fame.
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