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Nicholas Montemarano
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I finished my first novel, A Fine Place, in 1998 (it was published in 2002), and then I spent the next decade writing short stories. Whenever someone asked me if I was going to write another novel (people asked all the time), my answer was, "Probably not." Some days it was, "Definitely not." Simply put, I felt much more comfortable and confident with the short story form and therefore was more...
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The Book of Why: A Novel
— published 2013 — 5 editions |
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If the Sky Falls
by Nicholas Montemarano (Goodreads Author), Michael Griffith — published 2005 |
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A Fine Place
— published 2002 — 2 editions |
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The Book of Why. Nicholas Montemarano
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The Worst Degree of Unforgivable
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“All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.”
― Jean Rhys
― Jean Rhys
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
― Kurt Vonnegut
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― Kurt Vonnegut
“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.”
― George Eliot
― George Eliot
