Novel Quotes
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I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.
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I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.
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I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
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Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.
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Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.
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I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.
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Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.
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The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.
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When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
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The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.
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Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
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The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
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Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.
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I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.
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There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.
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The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
