David Xavier

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"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write."

My favorite authors are the dead guys of literary fiction: Graham Greene, Richard Yates, Evelyn Waugh, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis. I have to put Cormac McCarthy and Charles Portis on the list.

These authors influence my writing. I have written seven novels. They are all free to read. Just ask for a copy.
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Average rating: 3.78 · 384 ratings · 35 reviews · 39 distinct worksSimilar authors
Bells Above Greens

3.88 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Salomon (Part One)

3.71 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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On Raspberry Lane

3.54 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2014
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The MouseDoor

3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Weary Soul: A Novel

3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings2 editions
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The Lady in the Paint

4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings2 editions
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The Last Lesson

4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015
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Salomon (Part Two)

3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Rain Falls On Both

3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013
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Salomon (Part Four)

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“…in order to write books, all one needs to have is something to say, a stack of blank papers and a pen with which to say it; everything else is extraneous and nothing more than an attempt to add theatrics to the trade. ~ Camilo Jose Cela”
David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“An author should “deal in a kind of currency of the sorts of questions we’re asking ourselves all the time: What it is to grow up, what it is to fall in love, grow old, make choices, deal with regrets, try and do something about your errors.” ~ Ian McEwan”
David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

“fiction must tell the truth.”
David Xavier, How to Be a Storyteller: 7 Steps to Powerful Creativity

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