Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

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George Orwell, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, A. C. Benson, James Allen, Neil Gaiman, J. G. Ballard, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ian Fleming

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British - Author Born: May 4, 1949

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Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger they will take even less, unless they are vigilant and robust about protecting their own interests.Graham Swift

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Small Part Danger Unfortunately

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm. - Taylor Swift

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Moment Slow Motion Slow

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.James Bay

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Exhausted Slowing Down

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.John Mackey

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Moves Rhythm Hiking

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.Graham Swift

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Larger Intimate Connects

There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.Mary Roach

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Processing Chew Oral

Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.Paul Di Filippo

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Slow Grounds Sustained

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.Chris Kyle

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Heart Rate Shoot Rate

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.Graham Swift

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison

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Young Men Soon Forget

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.Graham Swift

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Invisible Actual Private

People die when curiosity goes.Graham Swift

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My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.Graham Swift

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Comfort Memories

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.Andrae Crouch

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Songwriters Picnic Give Me