Novel Quotes
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
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I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.
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I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.
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Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
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On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never any thought of this thing going on and becoming a series. If there's any common thing between these characters, it's that they weren't anything I was seeing in comics. Almost everything I've done is something I wish somebody else was doing, because it's what I'd like to read.
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My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
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I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.
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Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
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Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."
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Facebook is the novel we are all writing
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
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I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
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I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
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I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.
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A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
